:Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

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The hospital has its origins in the Hospital for Sick Children on St Michael's Hill founded in 1866.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/bha056|title=The Voluntary Medical Institutions of Bristol|date=27 November 1984|publisher=Bristol Historical Association|via=Internet Archive}} The initial building was a large converted dwelling house on Royal Fort Road, south of the Royal Fort gatehouse, with accommodation for 40 patients.{{Cite book |last=Major |first=S. D. |url=https://archive.org/details/major-illustrated-handbook-bristol/page/20/mode/2up |title=New Illustrated Handbook to Bristol, Clifton and Neighbourhood |date=1872 |location=Bristol |pages=21}}{{Cite web |title=1884-1888 OS 25" 1st edition |url=https://maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition= |access-date=23 August 2024 |website=Know your place: Bristol}} One of the hospital's first salaried doctors was the pioneering female surgeon, Eliza Walker, appointed as House Surgeon in 1873.{{Cite book |last=Bruce Perry |first=Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/bha056/page/8/mode/2up |title=The Voluntary Medical Institutions of Bristol ( |date=1984 |publisher=Bristol Historical Association |location=Bristol |pages=9}}

A much expanded hospital was built nearby to the designs of Robert Carwen in the Tudor gothic revival style in 1885.{{NHLE |num=1202548 |desc=Royal Hospital for Sick Children and attached front walls |grade=II|accessdate=4 February 2014}} Only the entrance building fronting on to St Michael's Hill now survives. The hospital was later renamed as the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rK5QAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA547 |title= The Statutory Rules and Orders Revised Being the Statutory Rules and Orders (other Than Those of a Local, Personal, Or Temporary Character) in Force on 31 December 1903|volume=15|year=1951|page=547|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office}}

The new Children's Hospital opened on 22 April 2001, replacing the old children's hospital on St Michael's Hill,{{cite report |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/estates/documents/masterplan/masterplan-appendix16.pdf |title=The Former Children's Hospital Historic Buildings Assessment |publisher=University of Bristol |date=November 2005 |access-date=24 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301020955/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/estates/documents/masterplan/masterplan-appendix16.pdf |archive-date=1 March 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=212 |title=Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Bristol |work=Hospital Records Database |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=24 February 2014}} at a cost £30{{nbsp}}million.{{cite journal |url=https://journals.rcni.com/doi/abs/10.7748/paed2001.02.13.1.19.c719 |title=Modernising Services: The New Bristol Royal Hospital for Children |author=Caroline Haines and Geraldine Johnston |journal=Paediatric Nursing |volume=13 |number=1 |date=February 2001 |pages=19–21 |doi=10.7748/paed2001.02.13.1.19.c719 |pmid=12024433 |access-date=24 February 2014 }} One of the main aims of the design, in addition to providing the most up-to-date facilities possible, was to overcome many of the difficulties that face patients, families and staff.{{cite web |url=http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/your-hospitals/bristol-royal-hospital-for-children.html |title=Bristol Children's Hospital |publisher=University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust |access-date=26 September 2012}}

In February 2014, it was agreed an inquiry would be held into the Bristol heart scandal, following heart surgery deaths at the hospital.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-26200484 |title=Sir Bruce Keogh agrees Bristol Children's Hospital inquiry |publisher=BBC |date=15 February 2014 |access-date=23 February 2014}} The inquiry published a report in June 2016, saying that “parents had been let down”.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36651082|title=Parents 'let down' by Bristol Children's Hospital cardiac ward|date=30 June 2018|publisher=BBC|access-date=26 July 2018}}

An extension was built to accommodate services moved from Frenchay Hospital in 2014, including neuroscience, scoliosis surgery, burns and plastic surgery, bringing all inpatient children's services in Bristol to one location.{{cite web |url=http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/about-us/news/staff-celebrate-topping-out-of-extension-to-the-children%27s-hospital/ |title=Staff celebrate 'topping out' of extension to the Children's Hospital |publisher=University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust |date=7 November 2011 |access-date=24 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228234942/http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/about-us/news/staff-celebrate-topping-out-of-extension-to-the-children%27s-hospital/ |archive-date=28 February 2014 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web |url=https://www.southgloucestershireccg.nhs.uk/news/specialist-childrens-services-under-one-roof-expan/ |title=Specialist children's services under one roof at the expanded Bristol Children's Hospital |publisher=South Gloucestershire CCG |date=7 May 2014 |access-date=27 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071914/https://www.southgloucestershireccg.nhs.uk/news/specialist-childrens-services-under-one-roof-expan/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} In 2015, a neuro-rehabilitation unit was built to support the moved services.{{cite news |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Dedicated-children-8217-s-patient/story-25934708-detail/story.html |title=Dedicated children's in-patient neurorehabilitation unit opens at Bristol Children's Hospital |newspaper=Bristol Post |date=28 January 2015 |access-date=27 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718062102/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Dedicated-children-8217-s-patient/story-25934708-detail/story.html |archive-date=18 July 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} In May 2014, a new helipad on the roof of the neighbouring Bristol Royal Infirmary became fully operational and will receive air ambulances from Bristol and the surrounding area, which will speed up transfer times for patients who are air lifted to the hospital. The HELP Appeal supported the construction of the helipad with a grant of £500,000.{{cite web|title=Bristol Royal Infirmary|url=http://helpappeal.org.uk/location/example-2/|publisher=Help Appeal|access-date=14 September 2017}}

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal is the only charity that fundraises exclusively for the hospital and the neonatal intensive care unit at St Michael's Hospital, to provide facilities and comforts for patients and their families.{{cite web|title=Our charities and fundraising|url=http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/about-us/our-charities-and-fundraising/|publisher=University Hospitals Bristol|access-date=27 October 2015}}

The Grand Appeal raised £12M towards the new building for the child-friendly hospital, which opened in April 2001. Since then, the charity has funded a wide variety of programmes for patients valued at over £5M including arts, entertainment, education, play and music programmes; equipment; family accommodation facilities; comforts for patients; ward enhancement and new medical facilities in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/our-charity/about-us|publisher=The Grand Appeal|access-date=27 October 2015}}

At the beginning of July 2013, The Grand Appeal launched a project named Gromit Unleashed, a public art exhibition led by Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations, in which eighty {{convert|5|ft|adj=on}} tall artist-decorated fibreglass sculptures of Gromit were placed on the streets of Bristol and the surrounding area for ten weeks.{{cite web|url=http://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk |title=Release the hounds... |publisher=Gromit Unleashed |access-date=2018-04-26}} Sculptures were decorated by a range of artists and celebrities, including Joanna Lumley, Sir Peter Blake, Cath Kidston and Jools Holland.{{cite news|last=Staff|title=Second giant Gromit sculpture vandalised in Bristol|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-23124517|access-date=11 July 2013|newspaper=BBC Bristol News|date=1 July 2013}}

At the end of the art trail, each sculpture was auctioned to raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital.{{cite web |url=http://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/auction |title=Gromit Unleashed | Grand Auction |access-date=5 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114143441/http://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/auction |archive-date=14 January 2014 }} The Grand Appeal has pledged to raise £3.5M for equipment for Bristol Children's Hospital, including a state of the art CT Scanner, an intraoperative MRI scanner, family facilities and child-friendly artwork to help save the lives of sick children at the hospital. All funds raised by Gromit Unleashed will contribute towards this.{{cite web |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-need-know/story-19308311-detail/story.html |title=Gromit Unleashed: Everything you need to know about the Bristol 2013 event including map, information, hotels, where to stay, route, details | Bristol Post |access-date=2013-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723235215/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Gromit-Unleashed-need-know/story-19308311-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}

Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity (BWHC) raises around £2M for all ten hospitals in the trust. It provides equipment, ward refurbishments and additional extras. It was formerly known as Above & Beyond and has existed since 1974.

In 2013, the charity's Golden Gift Appeal raised £6M.{{Cite web |title=Golden Gift Appeal |url=https://www.bwhospitalscharity.org.uk/golden-gift-appeal |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity |date=25 July 2017 |language=en}}

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In 1997, arts consultant, Lesley Greene,{{cite web |url=https://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=289|title=Lesley Greene |website=www.uwe.ac.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }} was commissioned to develop an arts strategy for the new hospital. This project was committed to integrated designs, a commitment to consultation and the family. Her active research programme led to the appointment of lead artist, Ray Smith,{{cite web |url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/health/brch/biog_smith.php.html|title=Ray Smith |website=www.publicartonline.org.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }} Eva Elsner,{{cite web |url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/health/brch/factsheet.php.html|title=Eva Elsner |website=www.publicartonline.org.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }} and Annie Lovejoy who contributed to the planning of the commissions programme.{{cite web |url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/health/brch/biog_lovejoy.php.html|title=Annie Lovejoy|website=www.publicartonline.org.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }}

Artworks were commissioned from more than twenty artists, many of which were site specific.{{cite web |url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/health/brch/images.php.html|title=publicartonline |website=www.publicartonline.org.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }} These commissions were funded by the hospital's own fundraising arm, The Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal.{{cite web |url=http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/health/brch/description.php.html#item10|title=Wallace & Gromit Grand Appeal|website=www.publicartonline.org.uk | language=en |access-date=2018-06-11 }}

Records of the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 37424) (online catalogue) and School of Nursing records (Ref. 38973) (online catalogue).{{cite web|url=http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/|title=Bristol Archives|access-date=26 July 2018}}

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