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A new charity launches this week (Monday 8 February) to support work at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity is raising money to ensure continued excellence in treatment, care and research at the hospital – improving the lives of thousands of children each year.
The support of the Charity means that the hospital can provide additional resources that make life a little easier for patients and their families who use the hospital.
The charity has three main areas of work:
Maurice Watkins, senior partner at Manchester solicitors Brabners Chaffe Street is chairman of the new charity. Mr Watkins was previously chairman of The New Children’s Hospital Appeal, which came to a close at the end of 2009.
Maurice Watkins said, “I’m delighted to become chairman of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity. There is a long tradition of charitable support in the UK’s hospitals, and that has been very strong in the North West. While the NHS provides top quality healthcare, we are always looking for extra resources to meet the non-medical needs of our young patients and their families. We hope that the people of the North West will take this new charity to their hearts, as they did with our earlier Appeal. ”
Peter Mount, chairman of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “I’m very pleased that Maurice Watkins has become chairman of the new charity. We are immensely grateful for the support and generosity of both the business community and the general public in enabling the Trust to provide the kind of support that makes people’s time in hospital – which can be very difficult and stressful – a little easier.”
The hospital’s patients come not only from Central Manchester, but all over the North West and reflect the region’s diverse population. It strives to offer the best facilities to all of them, providing first-class healthcare and recovery support.
