ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Alder Hey serves a catchment area of 7.5 million, with around 60, 000 children seen at A&E each year. In addition to the hospital site at West Derby, Alder Hey has a presence at more than 40 community outreach sites and programmes and its consultants hold 800 clinic sessions each year from Cumbria to Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man, helping deliver care closer to home. Alder Hey is a top performing Trust, rated ‘Excellent’ by the independent Healthcare Commission for the last six consecutive years, which puts it in the top two per cent of Trusts nationally. Founded in 1914, Alder Hey was originally intended as a workhouse for infirm paupers and the Trust is now engaged in planning a new, state-of-the-art Children's Health Park at the adjacent Springfield Park. The Trust hopes to open its doors to the new hospital in October 2014, marking its 100th Anniversary.