What an exciting day! Today saw the soft opening of our new fabulous Paediatric Emergency Department (ED) / Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) area. CEO Louise Ashley, cut the ribbon on our brand new, purpose built ED/PAU combined children’s area, which is light, bright, spacious and fully functional. It will be seeing our first young patients tomorrow. The area has been beautifully decorated with an under the sea theme - it’s comfortable and calming which it is hoped will put our young patients at ease if they need to visit us.
There was an extensive group of people who made this all possible, too many to mention but our sincere thanks to everyone who worked extremely hard to implement such an amazing step forward on how we care for our young patients. The project has been delivered in an incredibly short space of time due to amazing team work from everyone.
Alok Gupta, Clinical Director of Children’s Services said “This is exciting news and a wonderful step in the direction of integrated care. I am extremely proud to witness this historic moment and I am extremely grateful to the whole team for their concerted efforts in making this happen. I would like to say a special thank you to Louise Ashley, who because of her leadership, has made this all possible”.