Supporting Our Communities
We are proud to be associated with these charities and organisations and we actively support them to promote their causes.
To this end we support with donations three children's health charities that play a vital role in helping the youngest and most critically ill children.
We also support a very deserving school in our community by assisting them with funding for after-school clubs.
We appreciate that a mix of financial support, as well as actual involvement with time and skills are all beneficial when investing in charities and communities and we will work towards improving our non financial commitments also.
We will do this by demonstrating to our employees that we are responsive to the charities and organisations they most care about and will support them where we can by providing payroll giving schemes and volunteering opportunities via student mentoring, school governorship, and time off to volunteer.
CATS
Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) is provided only in a limited number of specialist hospitals in the UK. When children become very ill, they are usually taken by ambulance to the nearest district general hospital, which may not have a PICU.
CATS is a specialised NHS service designed to make intensive care rapidly available to critically ill children. The CATS service provides immediate telephone advice to hospitals in the region, and deploys an expert team to stabilise and safely transfer children to PICUs.
The CATS team will consist of a team of specialist and highly skilled doctors and nurses, and an ambulance technician, with specialist experience in the transport of critically ill children. In this way, CATS acts as a mobile PICU team, and ensures high quality intensive care throughout the child's journey.
The Winicott Foundation
The Winicott baby unit is a leader in specialist care for premature babies, it treats over 300 sick and premature new born babies, most of whom would not survive without its highly expert care. They specialise in early intervention techniques, aiming to give each fragile baby the best chance of survival without long term complications. A groundbreaking and highly specialised unit, Winicott is at the forefront of Neonatal Intensive Care and regularly shares its skills with other hospitals both in the UK and developing nations.
Oxford Childrens Hospital
As well as providing general paediatric care for its local community, the Oxford Childrens hospital provides services for those from further afield such as Plastics, Neonatal and Craniofacial surgery. Children are treated here for a range of conditions including heart disease, chest disease, childhood cancer, neurological disorders and those requiring general or extremely complex and specialised surgery.
The new hospital is devoted to the care of sick children, but with the resources of a large teaching hospital on site. Facilities from the atrium to the clinics and wards have been designed specifically for the welfare of children and teenagers.