Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

This is one of the UK’s specialist children’s cancer and leukaemia treatment centres.

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Pendlebury
Manchester
M27 4HA

Telephone: 0161 794 4696
Website: http://www.cmht.nwest.nhs.uk/hospitals/childrens/
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The Nightingale restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a variety of hot and cold food. Payphones are located throughout the hospital. A quiet room is available for parents.

There are many local facilities including a Post Office, banks and supermarkets. Details and locations are available from your child’s medical file.

There is a Citizen’s Advice Bureaux on the main corridor.  A Macmillan Nurse is assigned to patients automatically.

Train: The nearest mainline train station is Manchester Piccadilly, situated in the centre of Manchester.  It is just over five miles from Pendlebury and is well served by buses from Piccadilly bus station. The nearest train station to Pendlebury is Swinton.  However, if coming into a major central station, the best method of connection is by bus. You can contact the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive on 0161 228 7811 for more information.

Bus: Various buses leave from central Manchester to the children’s hospital. All leave from Piccadilly bus station, Stand P.

Parking on Site: Car parking is limited on hospital grounds.
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General: Paediatric Oncology – Borchardt Ward.

Direct Tel: 0161 922 2068

No. of Beds: 15 bedded unit with 4/5 cubicles.

Age Range: 0-16 (after this age children will go to Christie’s).

Additional Info: If the child is having a bone marrow transplant they will be transferred to the Bone Marrow Unit.

Short Stay Unit is a 5 bedded unit for day case chemotherapy patients.

Play: There is a playroom on the ward and a play specialist who engages the children in developmental play. The adolescent room is available to young people aged 11 upwards from 5pm every evening. Music therapy sessions are held every Thursday rotating between all 3 of the main oncology wards.

Learning: The hospital school is staffed by trained teachers. Parents are welcome to visit the school and discuss their child’s education with the staff. At RMCH teaching is provided by the Salford Education Department for children aged between 2 -19 years. Children under 9 are taught on the wards and units. Children aged 9 plus who are well enough to leave the ward attend the hospital school. For more information please contact the head teacher on 0161 922 2566.

Meal Times: These are at set times.  Breakfast is at 7am-8am, lunch at 12pm-1pm and tea at 4.30-5.30pm.  Food is also available between meal times.

Rounds: Specialist consultants will conduct the rounds on a changing basis.

Visiting Times: Parents’ visiting is unrestricted. The hospital encourages you to visit as often as possible to help your child feel secure in hospital. Other visitors are welcome but are asked to leave by 8pm. Please ensure that children under 16 years old are accompanied by an adult. After 8pm please use the main entrance as all other entrances will be locked. If you or any visitors have been exposed to any infections such as chicken pox and measles please check with the ward staff before entering the ward.

This is for one parent only. Speak to your named nurse and they will contact the Family Care Service to arrange this. Unfortunately, there are no facilities for children in the parents’ accommodation. If you would like residential accommodation please inform ward staff on arrival.

There is a kitchen with washer and dryer just off the ward. The washer and dryer take 20 pence pieces.

A youth group is faciliated by the Youth Development Worker and CLIC Sargent volunteers called Y.O.B.S (Youth on Borchardt Support) is held every 1st Tuesday of the month in the adolescent room off Borchardt Ward. 

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