Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity

Sheffield Children's Hospital is one of only four dedicated children's NHS Trusts in the country and we see 180,000 patient appointments every year - both from the local region and across the country. We are recognised both nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for paediatric care.

As the Charity of the Hospital, we exist to support and enhance the services that are offered in order to achieve the very best for every one of our young patients - both now and in the future. This year we are raising money for several special projects including the following.

Patient Interactive Education Systems - £100,000

We continue this year with this very exciting project to provide an integrated education and entertainment system at every child's bed.

The cost of each system is around £3,000, and each one will make a huge difference to children that use them. Some patients miss huge chunks of their education due to the time spent in hospital; this system will allow the Hospital’s Teachers and play specialists to work with the children and keep them up to speed with the national curriculum.

The system will also offer TV, radio, and internet access at the bedside - which will not only enable patients to communicate easily with their families and friends but also assist in their social development, all coupled with a quality entertainment package that will help pass the long days some children spend in our hospital.

We will be the first Children’s Hospital in the UK to charitably provide this excellent system to our patients!

‘Bear TWO’ Retrieval Ambulance - £120,000

Our aim is to provide a brand new specialist retrieval ambulance for the superb Intensive Care Team based at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital site. This bespoke ambulance will be a state of the art replacement for our existing ‘Bear One’ ambulance which was itself funded by the charity in 1996/7.

Why do we need a specialist ambulance? Only a proportion of emergency ambulances have a suitable fixing for the special mobile intensive care trolley that must be used, and none of these general vehicles are configured for the life-saving emergency transfer of children.

‘Bear TWO’ will be designed specifically to retrieve children who need intensive care on their way to hospital, and will greatly enhance the quality of care that they receive in transit. Installed equipment will allow the provision of specialist treatment not possible in a ‘general duties’ vehicle, there will be space for safe storage of specialist additional equipment and the ambulance will provide optimum safety and comfort for the patient and specialist staff in attendance.

Registered Charity Number 505002

http://www.sheffieldchildrenshospital.org.uk/