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Help create a calmer, safer environment for young patients

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For some young people, 

a hospital visit can be overwhelming. Bright lights. noisy machines. lots of people moving around. For someone with learning difficulties, this environment can feel frightening enough. Then come the tests — wires, monitors, unfamiliar equipment — making the experience even more distressing.

Ryan is 22 and lives with complex congenital heart disease and profound learning difficulties. When he attends hospital for heart scans, he often becomes distressed and tries to remove the monitoring leads. As his mother explains: “He doesn't understand how important these tests are he just knows he’s scared.”

This is where small changes can make a big difference.

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A Sensory Voyager could transform younger patients experience

This new piece of equipment will help to create a calmer, more reassuring environment for patients like Ryan. Using gentle lighting, soothing sounds and immersive imagery, it softens the clinical setting and reduces sensory overload.

 

This can help young people feel less anxious and more able to complete their scans calmly and successfully. With your support, we can introduce this equipment and help more young people feel calm and safe during these vital tests.

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But we need your help to allow us to purchase this life changing machine for young people living with heart conditions and learning disabilities.

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You can help us make a difference

For patients like Ryan, small changes to the environment can make a life-changing difference— not just to their care, but to how safe and supported they feel.  So will you help us to make a difference to the hundreds of young lives who depend on LHCH for their care?

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