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EXTERNAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2017/18

Alder Hey - Building of the Decade NIHR Children
and Young Person’s
Medtech Collaborative
Centre for Paediatric
Surgical Technology

The Innovation hub has
been successful in a joint
bid to the NIHR with other
UK children’s hospitals to
create a children’s medtech
collaborative. From April we will
be leading the UK in the area of
Paediatric Surgical technology
development as part of the
multi-year £1.4 million grant.

David Houghton, Project Manager, Development Team
Health Innovation

Alder Hey in the Park Exchange
was recently crowned
the BBC Building of
the Decade. The award
was voted for by the
viewers of BBC North
West Tonight and is
a huge achievement
for everyone involved
in the building of our
The Trust’s Innovation Hub
new hospital. Alder continues to grow rapidly after
Hey originally won the
successfully winning a three year
Merseyside category
European Regional Development
a few weeks ago Fund grant worth £650,000 to
and subsequently
promote healthcare innovation in
beat off competition the Liverpool region. By allowing
from Maggie’s at the
local health tech businesses to
Christie, Brockholes
understand Alder Hey’s problems
Nature Reserve and and speak to clinicians, potential
the Storyhouse.
solutions can be generated and
tested quickly.

University of Liverpool Science and Engineering Student Placements

Alder Hey has been working very closely with the our summer school graduates in has had great
University of Liverpool’s Faculty of Science and success, winning venture capital funding for their
Engineering to facilitate student projects to solve sample mix up prevention gadget, in partnership
difficult clinical problems with technology. One of with our pathology department.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 17 Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18