ALDER HEY
NEW HOSPITAL
Alder Hey ’ s new hospital features 270 beds , including 48 critical care beds for patients in ICU , HDU and Burns , together with 16 digitally-enhanced operating theatres . The majority of the children and their families have their own room and en-suite facilities and park views outside their bedroom window ; while each ward has its own kitchen providing patients with freshly cooked food to order . turn innovation off . As soon as we ' d done the pivot and helped with the immediate emergencies , we cracked on with our innovation strategy , we continued to write it . We continued to work with our partners , we kept the programme going , we didn ' t stop innovation . That was critical because now it feels like we ' re ahead of the curve because we didn ' t stop ,” Liddy explains .
Hennessey adds : “ We did so much stuff and it was great because everything just aligned . It was amazing for proving that this methodology and this way of finding problems , iterating solutions to them and then figuring out how to generate value for them is a good way of doing things . I personally love the fact that when people in the hospital had a problem , they would come downstairs to us . From a problemsolving point of view , it was a great challenge .”
Looking ahead as the hospital recovers from the pandemic , Hennesey shared his excitement for what may be next : “ The fun bit is that you don ' t know what the future holds . Every time I try and predict the future , sometimes you get it right , a lot of the time you get it wrong . So it ' s that potential for what might come that you don ' t know , but you ' ve got to be prepared to seize it when it arrives . That for me is a key to innovation because our human bodies aren ' t getting any better , we ' re not going to evolve in the next 1,500 years . So the only way you ' re going get better doctors and nurses and speechlanguage therapists is actually augmenting them with better training , with better technology , with better science . This is how we get better .”
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