Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Welcome to the page for the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Please share your stories,
(1053)

Great to see so many people learning CPR today ❤️If you'd like to learn this life-saving skill, head to the Resuscitatio...
16/10/2025

Great to see so many people learning CPR today ❤️

If you'd like to learn this life-saving skill, head to the Resuscitation Council UK to find out more: https://www.resus.org.uk

For Play In Hospital Week, our wonderful Play Team wanted to say hi! 👋🎨🎤🎭The Play team use a wide selection of resource...
15/10/2025

For Play In Hospital Week, our wonderful Play Team wanted to say hi! 👋🎨🎤🎭

The Play team use a wide selection of resources from medical play preparation, play distraction and normalizing play to help children to express how they’re feeling - encouraging communication, progress and the sharing of experiences unique to being in Hospital. We have a whole team of Play Specialists and Playworkers here in the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who are here to support, encourage, create and of course play! 🥰

We love our Play Team – they get involved in all of our events like Christmas and World Book Day (we loved their ‘Where’s Wally?’ theme this year), do incredible activities in the play centre, hold bake sales in the hospital’s reception and even facilitate other visitors to come and spread some cheer (like our Stormtrooper and Spread A Smile visits). 🎉

Basically, we love our Play Team and we know so many of you do too! ❤

For our 2nd post for International Adolescent Health Week, we're sharing another useful guide! 👇You might have seen the ...
15/10/2025

For our 2nd post for International Adolescent Health Week, we're sharing another useful guide! 👇

You might have seen the guides that young people have co-created to help with learning to manage a health condition more independently and move to adult services and we wanted to let you know about another one they have been working on! They have been busy!

The appointments guide has been created by young people to help them to understand and advocate for themselves in hospital appointments. It has information, lots of top tips and ideas of things it can be helpful to think about. 🗯

You can access the guide here:

https://uhbw.mystaffapp.org/17828/document_view.pdf

15/10/2025

National Burn Awareness Day – avoiding hot drink scalds ☕

Each year, around 1,800 children are referred to a specialist burns service, with hot drinks being the leading cause of scald injuries.

The South West Burns Clinical Network has created a short video with simple tips to help prevent these injuries – and advice on what to do if your child is burned.

Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB Children's Burns Trust

It's International Adolescent Health Week and we'll be sharing a few posts throughout the week in recognition of it 🌍For...
13/10/2025

It's International Adolescent Health Week and we'll be sharing a few posts throughout the week in recognition of it 🌍

For young people with long term conditions, navigating growing up and becoming more independent involves their health too! Learning to understand and manage a health condition, make decisions and arrange appointments are all skills that are important to learn and can be daunting not just for young people but parents, carers (and sometimes staff too!)

To help with the transition of learning to manage a health condition more independently and move to adult services our young people have worked together to create a number of guides, not just for young people but for parents, carers and clinicians too. You can access the guides here.

A young persons guide to transition -

https://uhbw.mystaffapp.org/17985/document_view.pdf

A parent and carers guide to transition -

https://uhbw.mystaffapp.org/17977/document_view.pdf

We want to help young people to thrive whatever this looks like for them and hope this helps them to do so.

Next week is Play In Hospital Week and our wonderful Play team have a jam-packed schedule that they wanted to share with...
12/10/2025

Next week is Play In Hospital Week and our wonderful Play team have a jam-packed schedule that they wanted to share with you! 👇

From arts and crafts to staff showcases to magic shows, there’s something for everyone – we’d love to see you there! 🥰

Please see your ward’s Play team for more information. 📝

Today is World Mental Health Day! 🌍🗯We thought we would mark it by highlighting some of the great teams that provide sup...
10/10/2025

Today is World Mental Health Day! 🌍🗯

We thought we would mark it by highlighting some of the great teams that provide support for children and young people in the hospital! 🥰

Mental health can impact anyone and having a physical health condition can bring up emotions and not just for patients but families too. We know how important support can be in these times and so wanted to introduce you to some of the people who you might have met or meet in the hospital and share some of their top tips.

Next week is International Adolescent Health Week (13th-19th Oct) and this year the theme is on thriving! 🎉The people wh...
09/10/2025

Next week is International Adolescent Health Week (13th-19th Oct) and this year the theme is on thriving! 🎉

The people who are most able to share what thriving as a young person involves is young people themselves and so if you are aged 12-19 years old or know someone who is then enter our competition. You might want to pencil a poem, record a rap, paint a picture or get creative in any other way you like, there are prizes to be won! 📝

You can send your submission to bchinfo@uhbw.nhs.uk. The deadline is Friday 17th October so go, go, go! 🥰

And the winner of the Fancy Dress Challenge ‘Facebook vote’ award goes to Apollo Ward! 💙 Congratulations!! 🎉Thank you to...
08/10/2025

And the winner of the Fancy Dress Challenge ‘Facebook vote’ award goes to Apollo Ward! 💙 Congratulations!! 🎉

Thank you to all those who shared and liked the team photos, it really was a fantastic display of inventive outfits, creative decoration, and terrific teamwork.

Everyone is a winner in our eyes, but here is a reminder of all of the other judges awards:

• Overall 2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Winners – Meadow Ward
• 2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Award 2nd place – Starlight Ward
• 2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Award 3rd place – Apollo Ward
• Creativity Award – Starlight Ward
• Sustainability Award – Penguin Ward
• Patient Partnership Award – Bluebell Ward
• Staff Engagement Award – LIAISE Department

The fancy dress challenge forms part of the programme which is delivered in partnership with Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal 🥰

What a night! And what an AMAZING total! 🙌 On Thursday 2 October, in a stunning culmination of three months of Wallace &...
06/10/2025

What a night! And what an AMAZING total! 🙌

On Thursday 2 October, in a stunning culmination of three months of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal’s biggest fundraising project, our dedication charity raised a life-changing £2million! This huge total will change the lives of patients at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and St Michael’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Thank you to everyone for supporting the fantastic ❤️

The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has been on a journey through a range of fantasy worlds! 🍄🌊🔎❄️👽🐴☁🦜From mermaids ...
30/09/2025

The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has been on a journey through a range of fantasy worlds! 🍄🌊🔎❄️👽🐴☁🦜

From mermaids to fairies, trolls to gnomes, the teams transported us to realms beyond our imagination for the Conversations Week fancy dress challenge. 🩷

This year’s judging panel included Group Chair Ingrid Barker and Group Chief Executive Maria Kane. They were joined by our Youth Ambassador Phoebe, and Helen from our dedicated charity, The Grand Appeal.

And the winners are *drum roll please*…

Overall 2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Winners - Meadow Ward
2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Award 2nd place - Starlight Ward
2025 Fancy Dress Challenge Award 3rd place - Apollo Ward
Creativity Award - Starlight Ward
Sustainability Award - Penguin Ward
Patient Partnership Award - Bluebell Ward
Staff Engagement Award – LIAISE Department

What’s more, we are now launching our Facebook vote. Below we have posted images of all participating teams, so get sharing and liking! 👇

The team with the most likes (including reactions) a week from today, will be crowned the winners of our final award - the Facebook Vote Award.

A huge thank you to all the staff, patients, and families that got involved. It was wonderful to see everyone come together and really reflect our amazing sense of community in the hospital. 🥰

(The fancy dress challenge forms part of the programme which is delivered in partnership with Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal)

29/09/2025

A little sneak peek of the Conversations Week fancy dress comp! Keep an eye on our page for more later this week… 👀

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal

Address

Paul O'Gorman Building, Upper Maudlin Street
Bristol
BS28BJ

Telephone

+441179230000

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Bristol Royal Hospital for Children posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share via Email
Share on WhatsApp Share on Instagram Share on Telegram

Category