North Manchester General Hospital - Recliner Parent Chairs x5

Over the next five years Children’s Services in Greater Manchester will be transformed as part of the Making it Better Strategy. The opening of the New Children’s Hospital in central Manchester will transform services for children in the region, and will absorb many of the specialist services formerly offered at Booth Hall and Pendlebury.

Many of the local services for children and babies that were provided by Booth Hall and Fairfield Hospital will stay in North Manchester and a new Women and Children’s Unit is being built to handle the increased number of patients. This will be a purpose-built unit to be completed in 2010. 

The medical team at North Manchester has identified the equipment needed, and there is a shortfall in the funding available. We have agreed to provide equipment to ensure that the new unit at North Manchester can take its place within the region as a top quality health care provider.

A stay in hospital can be a traumatic experience for anyone, and for a child being separated from family can add to that. For parents too the experience is very stressful; they are often forced to sleep overnight on upright chairs next to the child’s bed. We have been asked to provide chair beds which will improve the comfort of parents and carers at a very stressful time, and as a result allow the whole family to focus on the child’s recovery.

The chair beds cost £931 each and five are required making a total project cost of £4,658.