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330,000 children and young people are treated at Alder Hey each year but we have just a handful of rooms kitted out with the latest distraction technology allowing us to use an immersive person-centred approach to improve the well-being and comfort of patients.

Distraction technology – the use of 4D immersive projection, lighting  effects and surround sound - is proven to reduce the use of sedation by 40%, meaning children are not exposed to unnecessary medicine and staff can see and treat more children. 

Alder Hey Children's Charity thinks hospital staff should be able to use this technology with all of our young patients and so we raise funds to enable this. Listen to Sharon Clarke, Cardiac Physiologist explaining why this technology is so important.

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The Charity is proud to fund a huge array of Arts for Health projects at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. This podcast looks at the Ward Musicians programme, featuring Georgina Aasgaard, the hospital's Musician in Residence, who discusses the importance of the work for our young patients and their families, and the impact it has on her.

With thanks to Wallace and Gromit's Children's Foundation.

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For a child, coming to hospital can be a daunting experience, but the staff at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital ensure they are made to feel welcome and work hard to build friendships with their young patients. Alder Hey Children's Charity is pleased to have raised in excess of £338,000 in 2018 to fit out several of our treatment and consultation rooms with a range of distraction technology - light and film projection, surround sound, noise effects and music and character vinyl wall coverings  -  which is proven to reduce fear and anxiety in children. The iPad controlled software means patients can be given control of the space to trigger different projections, sounds and lighting. Here Cardiac Physiologist Sharon Clark tells us about the impact it has had on her and her young patients and explains why she wants every department to have this technology.

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The charity is proud to have funded the £94,000 required to upgrade the equipment used in epilepsy surgery at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, ensuring our amazing clinicians can dramatically reduce seizures and risk of Sudden Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) in our young patients. Here Teresa Preston, Neurophysiology Services Manager, explains what the equipment can do, and mum, Hazel, explains the life changing impact of the surgery on her young daughter Pippa.

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The charity recently funded £25,000 for SensaVue equipment so it's now available in two of the MRI scanners used at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Here Deborah Garlick, Lead Radiographer for MRI, explains the impact of this distraction technology on the children she sees on a daily basis.

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Patients and parents were our VIP's at this years Alder Hey Matalan PJ Party, hear all about it from them now.

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Scarlett Moffatt came to visit the hospital and host our Alder Hey Matalan PJ Party in November 2018. Listen to her impressions of the hospital and her feelings about the amazing charity single by Grace Lee, Lauren Clarke and the Alder Hey Matalan Choir.

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