Starlight Children's Foundation - UK

...And that's it, Play in Healthcare Week 2024 has come to an end! 🫣💚 It's been a fantastic week highlighting the importance of play, and the SUPERSTARS who make it happen. We've absolutely loved seeing all of the different ways you've been celebrating play, and we hope that you felt the joy, this week and beyond. Thank you to Adam Kay, Henry Paker, and Puffin Books for bringing illustrative storytelling fun to Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital and Oxford University Hospital. 📖 Thank you to all of our wonderful Health Play Award winners! 🏆 Thank you to all of the hospitals and healthcare providers who have joined in on all the fun under the hashtag #PIHW ✍️ This week might be over, but play in healthcare is happening, and necessary, ALL year round. We will continue to champion the health play stars working magic in wards, waiting rooms, and beyond up and down the UK. 🧸 From us and SoHPS Society of Health Play Specialists- over and out 📣 (Psst, we have a mailing list! If you want to keep up to date with our play endeavours, head to https://ow.ly/iI2R50TOvex to sign up today!)

HEALTH PLAY AWARDS 2024 🏆 It would NOT be Play in Healthcare Week without celebrating the excellence of our health play community who work tirelessly all year round to make healthcare more accessible and FUN for children. 🧸 While we are showcasing these four winners today, we want to take this moment to acknowledge the incredible work of health play specialists across all teams in the UK. You all work miracles bringing the spark of joy to even the darkest of times. ⭐ 👉 Find out who won: https://lnkd.in/eR7-hz2X SoHPS Society of Health Play Specialists

Our next #PIHW webinar is taking place tomorrow! 🤯 Following the launch of our annual PIHW report, we'll be looking at access to health play in hospital across England for children with a particular focus on areas of deprivation. 👉 Secure your FREE place: https://ow.ly/2CrF50TMsiI

We are not exaggerating when we say that play has the power to be lifechanging. ⭐ Hamera Elahi, a health play specialist, shares an extraordinary story of how play helped a child with autism overcome anxiety surrounding a blood test. 🧸 👉Read more: https://ow.ly/gT8A50TMqa7 SoHPS Society of Health Play Specialists

"We will relentlessly work towards ensuring that children’s needs are at the heart of the healthcare system." Not just some choice words for #PIHW, but a statement from our CEO Cathy that reflects the end goal of everything we do at Starlight, all year round. ⭐ 👉 Read more: https://ow.ly/3tUa50TLIYJ SoHPS Society of Health Play Specialists

We've started Play in Healthcare Week with a wonderful visit to Leicester Royal Infirmary with author and doctor Adam Kay and comedian and illustrator Henry Paker! 📖 The dynamic duo are donating mini-libraries to two hospitals this week to improve wellbeing and quality of life for young patients and their families through play and entertainment. These donations, in association with Puffin Books, will be supporting Starlight Children's Foundation - UK and the charity MediCinema 📽️ Adam's book, Dexter Procter The 10-Year-Old Doctor, is a laugh-out-loud medical mystery series which demystifies medicine and hospitals for young readers. 🏥 We are DELIGHTED to be working with Adam and Henry who are generously offering their time and the gift of books to support the power of play. 💚⭐ #PIHW #PIHW2024

PRIORITISING PLAY IN HEALTHCARE IN AREAS OF DEPRIVATION 💚 Hot off the press - our #PIHW2024 report is here! Evidence shows that play has the power to reduce fear, pain and trauma during treatment and recovery from illness – boosting mental and physical health and resilience. This year, our report continues to explore the critical relationships between the paucity of health play in hospital and the increased risk of mental health problems. 🧸 👉 Find out more: https://ow.ly/uHma50TJOV7

It's Play in Healthcare Week! 💚 We cannot tell you just HOW excited we are for this week's events. This week is all about celebrating the importance of play in hospitals, hospices and many other health settings with SoHPS Society of Health Play Specialists. From free play packs, our AWARDS(!) and the official release of our PIHW 2024 report, there's lots to look forward to! ⭐ Join in on the action by using the hashtag #PIHW2024 and find out more about what we're getting up to on our website: https://lnkd.in/eR7-hz2X

Its Play in Healthcare Week next week! To celebrate, we'll be holding a FREE webinar to launch our report! ⭐💚 Join us and learn more about our findings on access to play in hospitals across England, with a particular focus on how areas of deprivation are affected. 👉 Sign up here: https://ow.ly/cyIT50TJJgP

Our first FREE webinar for Play in Healthcare Week 2024 is taking place TOMORROW! 🚨 Join us at 12:30 - we'll be making the case for play in healthcare within public policy, following our recent symposium hosted at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). 🫡 👉 Book your place: https://ow.ly/3L2750TFOfW