John Grinnell has been appointed Chief Executive of Alder Hey. John succeeds Louise Shepherd CBE, who departed last month following 16 years in charge. John will assume his new role immediately, having undertaken the duties of Interim Chief Executive since Louise’s departure.

I loved doing this with Alder Hey Youth Forum - great discussion & fun & even a trip to the Helipad after our iDigital 💙 walk about. Not so sure of the idea of being dropped in a lava pit & loosing both my feet mind 😂. The Forum do amazing work at AH, such an important part of our work

The squad made their annual Christmas visit to 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 Children’s Hospital yesterday to sprinkle a little festive magic 🎄❤️

Well done Phil McNamara 💙 - brilliant!!! 😂🤪🥰

Happy Christmas 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 - amazing to spend the morning bringing some music to our children, families and staff with my fabulous friends from MaghullWindOrchestra thankyou for giving up your Christmas morning 🩷🎄🎅🏻🥰

We are delighted to announce that the wonderful charity, MediCinema will be presented with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at this year's EE BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday 16 February 🏆 Through the power of cinema and magic of film, MediCinema are dedicated

Alder Hey & Lyrebird Health create ground breaking collaboration which aims to use #AI to develop & implement solutions to improve operational efficiency, enhance patient care & deliver cost savings. Find out more about this exciting partnership at: bit.ly/4b070Gs

A huge well done 🎉 to the young people who have been involved in the youth bank project, they have won an award as part of the NHS England SEND awards 🥇 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 NSPCC LD & Autism Acute Liaison Team Joann Kiernan Broughton Hall Catholic High School Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School New Park Primary School Dixons Fazakerley Academy BelleriveFCJ

Amazing news. Thanks to MediCinema and Alder Hey Children’s Charity we have an amazing cinema at Alder Hey, where our children and young people can watch the latest movies. We even held the European Premiere of #Moana2 at Alder Hey last year! 🎥 #BAFTAs #BAFTA2025

Great to be in Birmingham today with the Children's Hospital Alliance. Lots of energetic conversation about ensuring the NHS 10 Year Plan incorporates children's voices & meets their health needs into the future 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Sheffield Children's ⁦Evelina London⁩

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 to all our amazing women 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 iDigital 💙 🩷🎉🥰

ICYMI: 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 Arts for Health received the Health and Wellbeing Award at last week’s Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards! We are so proud to support this vital programme at Alder Hey, thank you to everyone whose support allow us to continue making a difference. 💙

We're proud to be named the NW's top NHS Trust as a place to work 🙌 Health Service Journal posted its findings from the 2024 NHS Staff Survey, in which we ranked 1st in the NW & 3rd nationally for the question; “Would you recommend your Trust as a place to work?“ More bit.ly/4kWLXcc

Alder Hey is pioneering AI to transform kid’s lives on Merseyside. Proud to connect a place I care deeply about with work by bringing Jakob Mökander from Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to share expertise. As a trustee of Alder Hey Children’s Charity, it’s brilliant to see them leading the way in innovation💪

Fabulous to meet up with Ryan Wain Jakob Mökander 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 Alder Hey Children’s Charity iDigital 💙 Alder Hey Innovation today discussing all things AI and Children’s Healthcare. Good discussion on our emerging AI strategy 😊

Such an inspiring day with our 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 neurosurgery team today shadowing surgery CCIO Vejay Vakharia. The work you do is so special & it was a privilege to see it, meet families & spend time with the team. Also lovely to see our fab Benedetta in her clinical environment 🩷

Some reflections on #NWConnect25 What an amazing few days 🥰🤩🎶 katewarrinernhs.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/ref…

❤️💙 #YNWA

Below the new Surgical NICU at Alder Hey will be an expansion to our existing Emergency Department 🚑 Dr Bimal Mehta, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, explains how this new facility will help to improve the care we provide to children and young people ⬇️

We are currently treating vulnerable children and young people with #measles at Alder Hey. The best way to protect them is to ensure that you and your children are fully vaccinated. Here's our Chief Nurse, Nathan Askew, to tell you more: