Being a child in hospital is hard. 

We want to change this. 

Your donation to the Childrens Appeal will help children in East Surrey Hospital to have the best possible experience. 

More children from across Surrey and Sussex are now cared for at East Surrey Hospital than at any time since the hospital was built. The team of specialist childrens nurses, doctors, and play specialists care for children from newborn babies, to toddlers, older children, and teenagers. We want to provide the very best for children, whether they are here for an emergency, a planned operation, or have a longer term condition requiring ongoing, or regular hospital care. 

With your help, we will

• Refurbish 'Giraffe Bay' - creating a new more age appropriate area for young children.
• Create a new, dedicated adolescent mental health area. 
• Help children and their parents have more entertainment - with three new 'RockinR' games consoles, allowing children to play age appropriate games, or to watch films.  
• Transform a medical treatment room in the centre of the childrens ward (Outwood Ward)into a more child friendly space with new wall coverings, a sky ceiling, and additional equipment for play specialists and clinicians to use when explaining procedures to children of all ages.
• Create a new parents room for families of children in the hospital - open 24 hours a day for parents to take a moment away from the clinical environment, to rest in a comfortable 
• Help children with cancer, and those who need to stay for long periods in isolation rooms. By enhancing the isolation rooms on outwood ward, using feedback from parents and children. 
• Help the ward feel more welcoming to children of all ages - with a bright new entrance mural, inspired by ideas from local school children. 
• Fund the FUN! We will upgrade the toys and play equipment, to help the brilliant Play Specialists support more children across the hospital. This will include providing an additional games console for older children, a sensory trolley, which particularly helps children with additional needs, as well as enhancing the other games and toys our play specialists use with children across the hospital.

The hospital cares for children with services from the Childrens Emergency Department, through to a dedicated childrens assessment unit, and a childrens inpatient ward (outwood Ward). Many children under the care of specialist hospitals elsewhere also receive much of their treatment (for example infusions, or regular blood transfusions) locally, right here here at East Surrey Hospital.

See below for updates on how your support has already helped. 

Donations to the childrens fund are designated for the purpose of enhancing care for children and their families in the area served by SASH NHS Trust. Any money remaining in the fund when the appeal concludes, or which cannot be used in the childrens services will support other charitable activities for patients and staff across SASH NHS Trust.