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Our Giggle Doctors are trained performers who bring music, magic and fun to children in hospital, hospices and care centres and to children at home via virtual visits.
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Situation
Being ill and needing medical treatment is difficult at any point in life but when you are a child, it is particularly confusing and scary. If you’ve ever been in hospital, you will know those feelings of missing home, being worried and scared, and struggling in strange surroundings. Hospital stays through children's eyes are all of these things, and more. This is where the Giggle Doctors can really help.
Solution
Our highly trained Giggle Doctors combine music, play, magic and storytelling in a child led way. They bring joy and laughter to brave children and their families in at the 21 hospitals, 3 hospices and 2 specialist care centres we visit and via our Giggle-a-Grams and Virtual Visits. Theodora Children’s Charity say ‘much more than laughter’ because of proven evidence that the benefits of an interaction between a Giggle Doctor and a child are profound, and last well beyond the interaction itself.
