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Alder Hey Children's Hospital
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About Us
Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europes biggest and busiest childrens hospitals providing care for over 200000 children and young people each year It is one of only four standalone paediatric trusts in UK and is staffed by 2800 employees
Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer heart spinal and brain disease It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year
Alder Hey serves a catchment area of 75million with around 60000 children seen at AampE each year In addition to the hospital site at West Derby Alder Hey has a presence at more than 40 community outreach sites and programmes and its consultants hold 800 clinic sessions each year from Cumbria to Shropshire Wales and the Isle of Man helping deliver care closer to home
Vision and values
Delivering clinical excellence in all of our services
Ensuring all of our patients and their families have a positive experience whilst in our care
Be the provider of 1st Choice for children young people and their families
Be a world class centre for childrens Research and Development
Further improve our financial strength in order to continuously invest in services and provide funding for a new hospital
Ensure our staff have the right skills competence motivation and leadership to deliver our Vision
To provide a worldclass facility for our work to be made available to children locally nationally and internationally by delivering our hospital in the park vision
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