Improving health & wellbeing
We provide specialist medical equipment for children in hospital
MedEquip4Kids improves the health and wellbeing of babies and children in the UK by providing equipment and facilities not available from limited NHS resources. We also deliver the Hummingbird Project, a programme of mental health workshops in schools.
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Our Projects
Neonatal Cots for Burnley Hospital
MedEquip4Kids funded four specialist cots for Burnley General Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, improving comfort for premature babies, supporting parents to take a more active role in their care, and helping around 100 babies each year.
Find out more →Community CAMHS South Nottingham
New play therapy resources are helping children supported by Community CAMHS South explore difficult feelings, manage anxiety and find a safe space through imagination and play.
Find out more →Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Phototherapy for Hospital and Home
Jaundice is common in newborn babies and for healthy full-term babies is often mild and needs no treatment. However, it is more prevalent in sick or premature babies and, when left untreated, can be life-threatening. Phototherapy is usually administered in an incubator while the baby wears only a nappy, so as much skin as possible […]
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“This donation has enabled us to use more varied and useful therapeutic toys and games when working with children and young people with mental health difficulties, as well as using extra clinic rooms which are now more child-friendly. This has helped reduced anxiety about coming to CAMHS and meant that family therapy can be done. Both parents of a 10 year old boy can now attend with their 5 year old as the youngest child can play with our new resources in the waiting room or clinic space. The 10 year old benefited from therapeutic games about thoughts/feelings and we were also able to observe imaginative play for assessment.”
Dr Eleanor Oswald
Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS
Vale of Leven Hospital
