Creating a calm, child-friendly space that reduces fear and anxiety, and supports recovery
Pride of Yorkshire will directly support a new era for Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Every day babies, children and young people up to age 16 from across the region arrive at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Emergency Department (also known as Accident and Emergency), for the treatment of serious life-threatening injuries and illnesses.
It’s where families come on some of the hardest days of their lives.
Sheffield Children’s Hospital IS the only children’s Major Trauma Centre (MTC) for South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire – providing care 24/7 with specialist equipment, facilities and teams of trauma experts to make sure seriously injured children and young people receive effective diagnosis and early treatment.
The current Emergency Department opened in 1977 and was designed for 24,000 patients a year. Today, more than 62,000 children and young people come through its doors, annually. While its teams deliver exceptional treatment, the current environment no longer reflects growing and complex demand.
While our clinical teams deliver exceptional care, the environment for them to work within and for families to experience is suboptimal under this current demand.
Pride of Yorkshire will directly support the transformation of the Emergency Department to be a calm, child-friendly space that reduces fear and anxiety, supports recovery, and enables our teams to deliver the very best emergency care.
Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity are striving to raise £6.3 million to contribute to this £20 million redevelopment project, with Pride of Yorkshire launching this exciting fundraising campaign for the charity. These funds will go towards the creation of purpose-built clinical environments, improve patient flow and reduce wait times, enhance privacy and family experiences, and create spaces for high-quality care for patients with additional needs.
Together, we can turn ambition into action, expanding on a 150- year legacy built by and for the people of Sheffield, of South Yorkshire and beyond, creating healthier futures today, tomorrow and for the next 150 years.
Donate to Pride of Yorkshire to put your paw prints on this exciting new chapter
“It was incredible – the moment he needed care, it was there. It felt like the Avengers had assembled! “
“I was confident everything that could possibly be done for my lovely boy was being done with care.”
About Sheffield Children’s
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is one of only three dedicated children’s hospital trusts in the UK and provides integrated healthcare for children and young people across the country, including community and mental health care, as well as acute and specialist services.
At Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity we support the thousands of patients and families at Sheffield Children’s by funding the life-changing and the joy-sparking. We make clinical care kinder and bad days brighter, and we bring play, laughter, and comfort to places where they’re needed the most.
From the every day, to the extraordinary.
Thanks to generosity of our supporters, we’ve already delivered extraordinary impact through multi-million-pound projects like:
- The new Helipad
- Transformation of the Oncology and Haematology ward
- The Play Tower development
- Introduction of a state-of-the-art 3T MRI scanner
Visit the website to find out more about Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity, and the many ways you can help to create a hospital environment built with children in mind – for today, for tomorrow and for the next 150 years.
