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3D Printing

Alder Hey’s 3D printing hub in
partnership with 3DLifePrints has
gone from strength to strength
with new high resolution 3D
printers arriving in the Innovation
Hub. We now have access to
seven printers and an onsite team
of 3D print engineers.

Last year surgeons from Alder Hey
used hyper realistic operable 3D
printed models provided by 3DLP
to perform
an expo
of modern
neuro,
cardiac and
general
surgical
techniques
at the Arab
Health Trust Clinical Director for Innovation Mr Iain Hennessey,
Conference Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
in Dubai.

‘No Isolation’ Robot Appointment
to Key

In partnership with Innovation
No Isolation, a Board
remote tele robotics
company, we trialed Positions
three robots to
reduce the feeling of Iain Hennessey,
isolation for some of Clinical Director
our sickest children. of Innovation
and Consultant
The robots were Paediatric
placed in the Surgeon has
patients’ schools been appointed
and then linked to to key board
their hospital rooms level positions
by tablet. within partner
organisations to
The controllable further advance
robots allowed healthcare
the children to innovation. These
interact with their include the board
classmates and feel of the NHS
more involved in Innovation Agency
their class, despite and the Liverpool
being miles away in Enterprise Partners
their hospital bed. Innovation Board.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 19 Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18