With your help, we can realise our most ambitious appeal to date - to raise £5m by 2024 to help transform children's services at one of the busiest hospitals in the country.
Your support will help us to contribute towards the cost of expanding our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, adding four more beds and space for families, transforming our tired childrens wards, providing better facilities for our staff, so they can feel proud of where they work.
Our patients, our families and our staff deserve so much better.
Lacking space, our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit is unable to treat the number of children who need its world-class care.
With your help, we want to increase our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit by a third to allow patients to access lifesaving care quicker. This will keep families together, closer to home and ensure every child is in our expert hands without delay.
Alongside this, we plan to create space and privacy for the families and carers of our children on PICU.
"For children with acute cancer emergencies, treatment is time critical." - Martin Makato, PICU matron
Our hope is that the St Georges £5m Childrens Appeal could help fund an additional four to six intensive care beds, increasing our capacity to 16.
This Appeal could also help to fund a dedicated ventilation facility away from PICU. On any given day, between three and five of our 12 PICU beds are being used by children requiring long-term ventilation, patients who dont otherwise need to be in intensive care.
No child should have to spend time in PICU if they dont need to be there.
"A better environment would allow you to be the best possible parent for your child. Thats the priority. They need you at your best." - Strahan Wilson, father to Izzy who spent nine weeks on one of our childrens wards
Our three childrens wards feel stuck in another era. Teenagers share wards with toddlers, decor is tired and space for patients and families is severely limited.
This appeal could renovate all three of our childrens wards, creating the space needed for our patients to heal, our families to cope and rest and allow our staff to concentrate fully on the treatment and recovery of our patients.
Help us to overhaul our childrens wards so that we can help to create welcoming spaces where our young patients can rest and get better.
Our staff are our heroes, their outstanding care is world-class. We want to provide them with better facilities so they can feel proud of where they work. Not only that, our staff need and deserve areas where they can relax and recharge so they can provide the best possible care for our patients.
"Nursing is an intense job. It takes an emotional toll and we need space to take time out." - Tania Haughton, Matron
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