Ronald McDonald House Charities provides free 'home away from home' accommodation at specialist children's hospitals across the UK, enabling families to stay close to their child and maintain a degree of normal family life.

As Chief Nursing officer of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust- I see the incredible difference that the house can provide for the families of our most vulnerable babies, children and young people - this enables them to feel cared for in order to focus on their sick child at what is already a very difficult time