The Children’s Hospital Charity has a long history of fundraising for critical care services and for Embrace – Yorkshire and the Humber’s dedicated infant transport team.
In 1993, the charity donated the first mobile intensive care ambulance, Bear 1. A second appeal for Bear 2 followed, and the £120,000 needed was raised in just three weeks.
When Embrace was set up in 2009, Bear 2 was their first ambulance, and since then, the charity has helped keep the service at the forefront of paediatric care.
In 2014, the charity funded a portable cerebral function monitoring machine to help newborn babies with suspected seizures or severe oxygen deprivation. This helps prevent cerebral palsy and reduce brain injury, and allows treatment to be started before the child arrives at hospital.
The charity has also funded improvements to incubators and snack packs at Embrace, as well as portable chargers for parents on journeys.
