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Parents We Need your Help!

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Registered Charity Number 1202127

Improving Little Lives

New Promotional Video released 8th March 2023
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The Connie Medical Chair is designed to improve the quality of life, well-being and rehabilitation of young children in intensive and palliative care. The chair has been designed to be used in paediatric beds to offer sit up and play time for children aged 8 months to 4 years, supporting Early Mobilisation and Rehahbilitation (ERM)*. Born out of personal experience of losing a child in intensive care, Russ and Vikki Banner are fundraising to get several chairs into each paediatric hospital and hospice in the UK for free.
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The Need

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Over 20,000 children are admitted into intensive care each year, and a large portion have life limiting conditions, one study puts it at 57%**.  The majority are under the age of 1 (around 600 admissions per month), followed by under 2's (150 per month), followed by under 3's (75 per month). That's 9900 children aged 1-3. You can help us support parents and nursing staff by improving their quality of life and rehabilitation by donating. There is no current seat that works within the paediatric cot bed that allows children to sit up and play, as well as improve their recovery post-surgery. Please help us today.

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​I am so sorry for your loss xxx What an amazing way to honour the memory of your beautiful little girl. My son was a newborn when he had his first heart surgery at the Evelina but I know he would benefit greatly from the Connie Chair in the period after his next surgery. This is truly an amazing idea, thank you for your hard work and dedication to helping other children in similar situations to Connie xxx

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"I know from personal experience how wonderful it would have been to have had a chair like this when my Emily was ill in hospital and unable to sit up unaided. Thank you for all that you do." Debbie

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 "I think the design of your medical chair is great. I work clinically as an ECMO specialist in PICU and this design is really needed especially in the rehabilitation stage. Dr Lyn Palmer,PICANet Research Nurse, University of Leicester

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"Fantastic idea! There is a real need for an updated chair for babies on PICU/HDU and on wards across the hospital." Physio and OT Team, Bristol Children's Hospital

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"Fantastic idea!! There is a real need for an updated chair for babies on PICU/HDU and on wards across the hospital" (Physio and OT Team, Bristol Children's Hospital)
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The hospitals we plan to support...

​​Addenbrooke's Hospital
​Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Derbyshire Children's Hospital
Evelina London Children's Hospital
Great North Children's Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
John Radcliffe Hospital


King's College Hospital​
Leeds General Infirmary

Nottingham Children's Hospital
Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital
Royal London Hospital
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
St George's Hospital
St Mary's Hospital
Sheffield Children's Hospital
Southampton Children's Hospital


University Hospital Lewisham
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children

Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
Royal Hospital for Children
Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales
Staffordshire Children's Hospital 
Royal Brompton Hospital
James Cook University Hospital
Leicester Royal Infirmary


The Hospices we want to support... 

Acorns Children's Hospice
Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service
Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice
Blythe House Hospicecare & Helen’s Trust
Brian House Children's Hospice (Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services Ltd)
Butterwick Hospice Care  (Butterwick House Children's Hospice)
Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice
Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)
Children's Hospice South West (CHSW)
Claire House Children's Hospice
​Demelza Hospice Care for Children
Derian House Children's Hospice
​Dougie Mac Hospice



East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)
Ellenor 
Forget Me Not Children's Hospice
Francis House Children's Hospice
Haven House Children's Hospice
Havens Hospics (Little Havens)
Helen & Douglas House Hospice Care for Children
Hope House Children's Hospice
James Hopkins Trust
Jessie May Children's Hospice at Home
​Jigsaw Cumbria's Children's Hospice

Julia's House
Keech Hospice Care for Children and Young Adults
​Martin House Children's Hospice

Naomi House & Jacks Place
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
Nortern Ireland Hospice
Once Upon a Smile
Rainbows Hospice
Rebecca House Children's Hospice (Hospice Isle of Man)
Rennie Grove Hospice care (Rennie House)
Richard House Children's Hospice
Shooting Star Children's Hospices (Christopher's)
St Andrew's Hospice (Andy's)
St Oswald's Children's Hospice
The Donna Louise Children's Hospice 
Together for Short Lives
Tŷ Hafan
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
* A 2022 report identifies the most significant barriers to ERM were insufficient resources and equipment, 69% and inadequate funding (61%). Participants provided examples of resources having to be shared across organisations or specially ordered to deliver ERM to patients. https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e001300 
**​Fraser LK, Parslow R Children with life-limiting conditions in paediatric intensive care units: a national cohort, data linkage study.Arch Dis Child 2018: 103: 540-547. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28705790/
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