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Chief Executive of NHS Charities Together visits ‘incredible’ NUH Neonatal Unit
We were pleased to welcome Ellie Orton OBE, Chief Executive Officer of NHS Charities Together, to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to find out more about the work we are doing between our trust and the NUH Charity to bring the greatest benefit to our patients.
Ellie began her visit with a sit down with NUH Chief Executive Anthony May and NUH Charity Chief Executive Nigel Gregory, before touring the QMC Neonatal Unit which opened in December 2024 after a significant expansion and renovation project.
The unit includes aspects funded by the NUH Charity’s Big Appeal to provide families with as positive an experience as possible during their stay at QMC, including frosted glass partition screens for the bays, the children’s play areas and televisions for the family rooms.
At the end of her visit, Ellie said:
“The QMC Neonatal Unit is incredible. For a place where families are going through something so scary and stressful, the unit feels calm and like a healing space.
“It’s all been so well thought out – the lighting, the family spaces, the training area, the bay partitions – and it’s great to see how the staff and the charity have worked together with so many people, but most importantly families, to make the best experience possible.
“Together, they have created a truly human, healing environment, one that goes far beyond a medical setting.”