Hospital 'gets animated' to support kids receiving treatment

PAEDIATRIC PROCEDURES CAN OFTEN CAUSE ANXIETY OR BE UNSETTLING

- By ABIGAIL NICHOLSON

HULL Royal Infirmary is using the power of animation to help support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.

Working with animation company, Get Animated Medical, paediatric staff at the hospital and their colleagues in neurophysiology have created a video to explain what's involved in an Electroencephalogram, or EEG for short.

This test is frequently carried out in paediatrics, but as it involves attaching sensors to the scalp to measure brain activity, it's also a test which can cause anxiety. The video is the first in what's hoped will be a series of animations to help guide young people with additional needs and their families through their healthcare journey.

Dr Sandhya Jose, consultant in paediatric medicine for NHS Humber Health Partnership said: "For some time, we have been looking at ways of improving the quality and suitability of information provided to children with additional needs and their families. Video, and animation in particular, offers us the opportunity to get important health information across in a way which is both engaging and easy to understand.