Providing community and hospital care, Alder Hey is based in Liverpool and is the UK’s largest children’s NHS trust. The new Alder Hey in the Park hospital opened in October 2015.

Alder Hey has developed as: a centre of excellence for cancer, as well as spinal, heart and brain conditions; a Department of Health centre for head and face surgery; a centre of excellence for muscular dystrophy, and the first UK centre of excellence for childhood lupus.

One of four national centres for childhood epilepsy surgery – a joint service with the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital – Alder Hey is also a designated children’s major trauma centre; a leading diagnostic centre; and a centre for research, innovation and education.

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