Geotechnica Charity for 2011
Oxford Radcliffe Children's Hospital
Equipe hopes to match or even better exceed the £500 Geotechnica donation for it's chosen charity which is Oxford Radcliffe Children's Hospital. This year, we will be encouraging donations from both the exhibitors and visitors to help this worthwhile charity.
The charity is local to The Drilling Academy and has strong links with The Upton Estate and we know is a very worthwhile cause and we hope through the Geotechnica donations to help children's stay in hospital a little easier.
How gifts enhance the Children's Hospital?
Children have very different medical and surgical needs, requiring an approach that takes account of the differences in their physical and emotional maturity. Getting it wrong with children’s care can result in negative experiences that may slow their recovery. It may also affect their emotional and social development and even have long-term effects into adulthood. The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust (ORH) provides vital children’s health services for more than 65,000 children each year. These children are drawn not only from the surrounding counties but, in some specialities, across the country.
The new Children’s Hospital, Oxford (CHOx) opened in January 2007 and is one of a handful of purpose-built, specialist children’s hospitals in Britain. The dedicated and integrated Children’s Hospital greatly enhanced the ORH Trust’s already high standards by bringing most of its children’s services into a specifically child- and family-friendly building.
CHOx is like few other children’s hospitals in Britain. Not only has it brought most of the children’s wards under one roof, it contains facilities for patients and parents that the NHS alone would not have been able to afford. A major feature, for example, is the parent bed and storage area that has been included next to most of the children’s beds. This allows families to stay close to their child and get the rest they need to help deal with the stress of having a poorly child. In addition, there are three classrooms, four outdoor play terraces, two internal play/art rooms, sensory rooms, two state-of-the-art computer integrated surgical theatres, an adolescent lounge and parent kitchen and lounge facilities, all designed to help minimise distress, provide distraction and make life as normal as possible for children and their families.
Charitable gifts continue to make a difference by supporting a wide variety of projects that add “the icing on the cake” to the already excellent NHS care. These projects range from the purchase of state-of-the-art medical equipment to art projects like the five-story painting by internationally-known artist Michael Craig-Martin currently being installed in the CHOx Atrium.
Future needs include:
Equipment for our Newborn Intensive Care Unit,
Support for further art to decorate the route children take when going to theatre and
A high-end cardiac ultrasound to enhance patient care and research.
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