Open letter to Parents and Carers in Merseyside from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, UKHSA and Directors of Public Health for Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley
💷 We're investing £4.16m to support @AlderHey's Paediatric Open Innovation Zone—cementing our position as a global leader in health innovation!
🧒 This is an investment in life-changing research, high-quality jobs, and better health outcomes for young people across our region.
We’re excited to announce that Alder Hey has secured over £4 million in funding from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority as part of the £9.44 million Paediatric Open Innovation Zone (POIZ) initiative 🤝
Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵
If you’ve been into Food Warehouse, or clicked on @IcelandFoods website to buy #infantformula recently, you might have spotted these!
They’re new shelf labels that Feed & @icelandrichard are piloting, to share government & public health info on formula with the aim of…. 🧵 (1/)
Huge achievement for @feedukorg & @metrouk#FormulaForChange campaign!
Thank you @icelandrichard for once again having the balls to be the first retailer to make posotive changes to support UK families! 🙌
By law, all infant formula is nutritionally the same - despite the manufacturer’s different pricing.
We thought our customers should know.
Proud of our latest campaign with @feedukorg, which the @CMAgovUK have recommended in their report this morning.
#FormulaForChange
A massive vote of thanks to the efforts of British Divers Marine Life Rescue @BDMLR who today freed a Humpback Whale tangled in plastic line in Scotland . Brave (it’s dangerous work) , rapid and effective . Thank you . Please donate here https://t.co/ZTQSkB7PhM
5.2million children now living in deprivation . Simply unacceptable. Time to drop the two-child benefit cap and to agree much more radical policy and delivery solutions to improve children's lives.
https://t.co/EgriVWwo0G
BREAKING: Zoe's Place baby hospice in Liverpool has officially been saved after an incredible campaign which raised a staggering £5 million in just 30 days
What an unbelievable achievement from this city and everyone who contributed!
https://t.co/CQz3aYULaN
"Children have not been a political priority for over a decade - and the health service has not been designed or commissioned with children and young people in mind.
That’s why as a charity we are taking this unprecedented step to advocate for children and young people".
@AlderHeyCharity CEO @FionaAshcroft giving remarks at the #PutChildrenFirst event.
A group of leaders in Cheshire and Merseyside have joined forces to publish a joint statement on the urgent need to end child and family poverty in the subregion.
Read the full statement ➡ https://t.co/ofo96AiaPE
@ChampsPHC
@migueldoforo Oh Miguel, I'm so sorry your incredible work is now affected by this madness. You do so much for the community and are such a role model and inspiration to so many people.
We are One Alder Hey, made up of thousands of remarkable people from hundreds of different backgrounds, cultures and faiths. Our diversity of skills, knowledge and beliefs is what connects and defines us.
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