An Update on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has always pioneered neonatal care – opening the world’s first surgical neonatal unit in 1953. The new unit will offer 22 neonatal cots and will feature 18 individual family rooms where parents can be alongside their newborns whilst they’re receiving expert care. It’s the first of its kind in the UK.

The unit will address a shared concern between Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey that babies who need specialist surgery currently have to be transferred to Alder Hey to get the specialist surgical care they need and are then transferred back to Liverpool Women’s Hospital to continue their specialist neonatal care, sometime several times.

The new Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit facility will cost approximately £26m to build, with £3m being provided by Alder Hey Children’s Charity.

Charity funding will provide ‘over and above’ enhancements and equipment for both the clinical space and family areas, elevating it from a facility that provides families with a safe and secure environment for them and their newborns, to a truly world-class facility that wraps around families with the most vulnerable babies in the region. The Moulding Foundation is very proud to support this project.

Our Co-founder, Jodie Moulding, said, "One of the best things about setting up a family foundation is being able to give back to the amazing services that we’ve been lucky enough to use ourselves. 14 years later, we’re back here with our youngest son, Zac, who was cared for by the incredible neonatal team at Alder Hey for three months post birth. 

It's a privilege to be able to support projects like the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, helping families going through similar experiences to us."