Premature Babies

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Premature births cost the UK an extra £939m a year, say researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics.

Their study calculated what the costs would be for all the preterm babies born in 2006 over the first 18 years of their life.

They looked at healthcare, education and the costs to their parents of having to have more time off work.

And they say that more funding for research into ways to delay premature births could save £260m a year. - BBC