Countess of Wessex officially opens city children’s hospital

The Countess of Wessex was in Leeds yesterday to officially open Leeds Children’s Hospital.

The new venture has been created by combining existing services at Leeds General Infirmary with those brought over from St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. Millions of pounds have been invested in improving accommodation for children and their parents.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, by bringing care for all paediatric inpatients together on the Leeds General Infirmary site, has streamlined services in a bid to boost patient care.

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Trust chairman Mike Collier told the Countess: “It has been a long-held ambition of clinicians and families in Leeds to have a dedicated children’s hospital in the city.

“Parents and NHS staff alike recognised the improvements in the quality of care that would result if we could prevent young patients having to use hospital facilities across multiple sites in this city.”

The hospital treats children from Leeds and the Yorkshire and Humber region, as well as from across the UK. It is one of the most comprehensive facilities for young people available anywhere in the NHS.

The trust is now building on this by making the Leeds General Infirmary’s Clarendon Wing the city’s principal focus of all hospital care for children.