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We transform children’s experience of hospital from an environment that can be scary and isolating into a place of fun, play and laughter. We do this by providing professional performers, called Giggle Doctors, to children’s hospital bedsides.

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  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)

    Situation

    1 in 20 children are treated in hospital every year. A hospital stay is distressing and isolating for a child. They may not fully understand the reason they feel the way they do, or why they are suffering and undergoing tests and procedures, away from home, school, friends and family. Some children with illnesses like cancer can spend weeks or even months in hospital. With the NHS under increasing financial pressure, staff must focus on providing medical care reducing time to spend with patients

    Solution

    These factors mean there is an increasing emphasis on the importance, and need for, respite and play, which is what our Giggle Doctor visits provide. Whilst medical staff treat the illness, Giggle Doctors focus entirely on the children. Wearing their very own colourful ‘doctor’ coats, which represent their character, a Giggle Doctor spends time one to one with the children, creating opportunities for children to play and interact through music, magic, improvisation and storytelling.

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    100%
    Categories

  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)