Bringing some fun to a daunting experience.
The goal the team behind Birmingham Children's Hospital's new pound 2.7 million Children's Kidney Unit set itself was to create a comfortable and relaxing, but equally lively, colourful, and stimulating environment that would help "transform, into something more bearable, and even fun" the time spent in hospital by young patients undergoing haemodialysis and other renal treatments. During a tour of the unit, Derick Harrison, project lead, and the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's capital project manager (for this scheme), explained to HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie that, from the outset, the project team was also determined to create the UK's best children's renal facility yet.
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