Children’s Hospital Alliance Education Specialists Symposium (CHESS) – Book your place now

The Children’s Hospital Alliance Education Specialists Symposium (CHESS) will be hosted by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust on Friday 11 September at the Crowne Plaza Sheffield. This event brings together educators from across Childrens healthcare, alongside education and industry, to share learning, showcase innovation, and build networks that support future collaboration. Following the publication of […]

State of Child Health 2026 Report

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has launched its latest State of Child Health 2026 report. Bringing together the latest evidence across 12 indicators of child health and wellbeing, the report highlights the trends, inequalities and challenges affecting children and young people across the UK. The findings are clear: failure to improve […]

Save the date for the Children’s Hospital Alliance Education Specialists Symposium (CHESS)

The Children’s Hospital Alliance Education Specialists Symposium (CHESS) will be hosted by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust on Friday 11 September at the Crowne Plaza Sheffield. This event brings together educators from across Childrens healthcare, alongside education and industry, to share learning, showcase innovation, and build networks that support future collaboration. Following the publication of […]

First edition of new CHA Research Newsletter launches!

Welcome to the first edition of our new newsletter, focused on connecting children’s hospital research across the country. In issue one, we are shining the spotlight on one of member trust’s, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, learning about some of their ongoing studies and their new MRI scanner, as well as introducing the Children’s Hospital Alliance […]

The ‘Was Not Brought’ programme – predictive AI & tailored interventions

An conceptual image depicting an AI chip to represent Predictive AI and Tailored Interventions

Challenge Every year, children in England miss more than a million hospital appointments. Sometimes parents/carers believe that a child no longer needs the appointment, or they simply forget. But in some cases, children miss their appointments because poverty or disadvantage prevent them from accessing healthcare. In 2019/20, there were 8 million outpatient appointments for children […]

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