Your Choice

Giving people more choice is a priority of the modern NHS. This is because research in the UK and overseas has shown that treatments are more effective if patients choose, understand and control their care.

Your choices include:

The right to choose a GP and to change to another if you're not happy with the service you receive.
The right to choose which hospital to go to if your GP refers you to see a specialist.
The right to be involved in decisions about your healthcare and to be given the information you need to do this.

For a full list of your guaranteed choices within the NHS go www.nhs.uk/choiceinthenhs

Help and information about the interment of retained organs, foetuses and tissue samples

A guide to the hospital can be downloaded here.

The first link is for the full guide, however you can download just the section that is relevant to you:

Welcome to Alder Hey (full guide)

Before Arriving at Alder Hey

During Your Stay

Useful Information

Same Sex Accomodation

Holiday Information (36Kb)

Jargon Buster (24Kb)

Local Facilities (20Kb)

Questions About Ethnicity, Language and Religion (20Kb)

Some sources of financial help (20Kb)

Sources of help and advice that may be useful to parents and carers (16Kb)

Toys and infection control

Dear Parents, Relatives and Carers

When a child is admitted to hospital it can be a very stressful time and things may be forgotten. When preparing to come to the hospital, please ensure that you bring with you an adequate supply of your own medication as the hospital will not be able to supply you with any.

Thank you for your co-operation

Dear Parents, Families and Children

We know at Alder Hey hospital how important toys are to all our patients. We know they play a critical role to their recovery and how bringing a favourite toy into hospital can make all the difference.

However, toys are a major source of infection. Here at Alder Hey we have been reviewing our stock of toys to ensure we are totally confident they can all be effectively cleaned.

To help us minimize the risk of cross infection could we ask you to:

· Ensure any toys you bring into hospital are clean. All soft toys should be machined washed before bringing into hospital. Please wash your toys weekly if your child is here for a longer stay

· Keep the number of toys brought into hospital to a minimum

· Don’t share your toys with other children

· If your child has played with any hospital toys in their bed space, please give back to ward staff to clean rather than putting back into the general store

Please help us to keep infections to a minimum.

Thank you

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