With your support we can do more to ensure children and their families experience outstanding care with compassion and better cope with being in hospital.
Even the sickest children need to feel comfortable and safe, and to have a chance to play and learn. This can have a huge impact on their successful recovery, building confidence, developing creativity, addressing physical, social and emotional issues as well as providing a welcome distraction for children during an anxious and often scary time.
Thanks to your support we have funded improvements to the hospital environment so that we can create the best possible experience during what can be a difficult time. We have developed children’s playrooms, family areas, outdoor play areas, sensory gardens, and provided musical and holistic therapies adding comfort, colour, music and laughter to our regular playtime activities.
Here are just some of the ways you have made a difference to our families.
Music and entertainment is a big part of daily life at our Children’s Hospital and something our charity has always supported. Read more
Twenty patients from our Children’s Hospital took their turn strutting their stuff on the catwalk at an adaptive clothing fashion show, supported by our charity. Read more
We were thrilled to welcome hundreds of young cancer patients to our inaugural Haematology and Oncology Games this summer, supported by our charity, to demonstrate the benefits sport can have on health and recovery. Read more
To improve patient experience, charitable funds have paid for a new tannoy system in our main Outpatients Department. Since its arrival, families have reported they now feel more relaxed and able to play while they wait, as they know they will hear their child’s name being called no matter where in the department they are. Read more
Charitable funding recently allowed the creation of a series of videos for young people, children and their families to help explain what happens when they come into our hospital. Read more
Funds raised by our fantastic supporters enabled the Neurosurgical Ward at our Children’s Hospital to purchase a Safespace Hi-Lo bed. Read more
Last year we celebrated Eid Al-Fitr with special gifts for our patients at our Children’s Hospital. The gifts were generously donated by Muslim Aid, funded by its generous supporters. Read more
Thanks to charitable donations, tracheostomy patients at our Children’s Hospital now have a brand-new mascot, a soft toy called Raki the Raccoon with a tracheostomy at its neck. Read more
Play is serious business at our Children’s Hospital. It allows patients and their families to make happy, lasting memories as well as offering a respite from medical treatments. Read more
Youth mental health has taken a huge hit this last year. On top of the challenges of growing up, young people have faced wave after wave of uncertainty and isolation due to COVID-19 Read more
To allow us to support other NHS Trusts in the region at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Children’s Hospital increased its intensive care capacity in order to treat more of the sickest children from across the Midlands. Read more
£312,000 raised by our supporters will transform the waiting room in our Eye Department. Read more