Bringing care closer to young patients and their families
New equipment that enabled clinicians to take part in ward rounds, deliver emergency medical advice, and facilitate urgent reviews during the pandemic.
Liverpool, England
Funding from our Urgent Covid-19 Appeal enabled Alder Hey Children's Charity to provide new equipment in the form of neonatal telemedicine robots.
When the pandemic hit, the paediatric neonatal surgeons working at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust were no longer able to work side-by-side with the neonatologists from Liverpool Women’s Hospital to treat very sick babies.
They urgently needed to find a solution that kept everyone safe, but still delivered the best possible care for their young patients.
Thanks to funding from our Urgent Covid-19 Appeal, neonatal telemedicine robots allowed staff to speak to their colleagues via a screen, and vitally, monitor their patients at the same time, just like they were there at their bedsides.
Jo Minford is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey. She said:
“Charitable funding made a huge difference to us being able to move forward with plans that we’d already started to think about and to do that quickly in this really challenging situation.
“The fact that we had that funding available meant that we could do what we knew was going to help and provide what we needed to do for the babies.
“Having that funding given so responsibly and being able to put that in place as quickly I think as humanly possibly meant that for staff we weren’t having this period where we were feeling we couldn’t do what we needed to do and – and that the babies got what they needed.”
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