AH ANNUAL REPORT 2018
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EXTERNAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2017/18<br />
Alder Hey - Building of the Decade<br />
David Houghton, Project Manager, Development Team<br />
Alder Hey in the Park<br />
was recently crowned<br />
the BBC Building of<br />
the Decade. The award<br />
was voted for by the<br />
viewers of BBC North<br />
West Tonight and is<br />
a huge achievement<br />
for everyone involved<br />
in the building of our<br />
new hospital. Alder<br />
Hey originally won the<br />
Merseyside category<br />
a few weeks ago<br />
and subsequently<br />
beat off competition<br />
from Maggie’s at the<br />
Christie, Brockholes<br />
Nature Reserve and<br />
the Storyhouse.<br />
NIHR Children<br />
and Young Person’s<br />
Medtech Collaborative<br />
Centre for Paediatric<br />
Surgical Technology<br />
The Innovation hub has<br />
been successful in a joint<br />
bid to the NIHR with other<br />
UK children’s hospitals to<br />
create a children’s medtech<br />
collaborative. From April we will<br />
be leading the UK in the area of<br />
Paediatric Surgical technology<br />
development as part of the<br />
multi-year £1.4 million grant.<br />
Health Innovation<br />
Exchange<br />
The Trust’s Innovation Hub<br />
continues to grow rapidly after<br />
successfully winning a three year<br />
European Regional Development<br />
Fund grant worth £650,000 to<br />
promote healthcare innovation in<br />
the Liverpool region. By allowing<br />
local health tech businesses to<br />
understand Alder Hey’s problems<br />
and speak to clinicians, potential<br />
solutions can be generated and<br />
tested quickly.<br />
University of Liverpool Science and Engineering Student Placements<br />
Alder Hey has been working very closely with the<br />
University of Liverpool’s Faculty of Science and<br />
Engineering to facilitate student projects to solve<br />
difficult clinical problems with technology. One of<br />
our summer school graduates in has had great<br />
success, winning venture capital funding for their<br />
sample mix up prevention gadget, in partnership<br />
with our pathology department.<br />
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 17<br />
Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18