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Yorkshire Children's Hospital Fund (YCHF) The Yorkshire Children's Hospital Fund (YCHF), originally the Yorkshire Children's Hospital Trust is a charitable organisation which aims to provide "essential equipment for children's wards that cannot be funded from any other source".

Background
The charity was set up in 1989 and since then has provided funding for multiple projects throughout the counties of North, South & West Yorkshire. It is registered charity number 701777.

Provision of Grants
The YCHF has the ability to provide grants:
 * * to hospital's in Yorkshire in order for them to purchase medical equipment for their paediatric department which is not available from NHS funding.
 * * to support research into paediatric medicine within Yorkshire with the direct intent to better the level of care of the regions children.
 * * to contribute towards the access of medical technology or equipment which is unavailable in Yorkshire
 * * to provide financial support for families with children and babies in hospital "

Trustees
Mrs Jo Ropner - Chairman

Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Director of the Rank Foundation Mrs Heather Louise Sampson - Administrator Mr Michael Abrahams CBE Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Chairman of The London Clinic Former chairman of the YCHF The Countess Peel Trustee of Herriot Hospice Homecare, Lord Barnby's Foundation & The Countryside Foundation For Education Mrs Sarah Lucy Louise Adair Trustee of the Aysgarth School Trust Limited Viscountess Ruth Mountgarret Mrs Anne-Marie Megarry Mrs Lucy Frances Legard Christy York Mrs Victoria Ruth Vivian Miss Charlotte Lucy Platts

Cyberknife
The YCHF provided funds for 18 year old Christopher Wilson of Harrogate, who has craniospinal cancer (ependymoma), to undergo the cyberknife treatment at The London Clinic in Harley Street "after experts had feared that tumours on his spine were inoperable". The treatment cost £22k, of this the YCHF provided £5k with the remainder being provided by The London Clinic, The New Victoria Medical Foundation and the Brainstrust.

Leeds Cystic Fibrosis Unit
The YCHF donated £3562 to the Cystic fibrosis Unit at Leeds hospital, this went towards two saturation monitors costing £1000 each, two wrist-worn saturation monitors costing £460 each and the software required for the monitors costing £442.

York MRI Scanner
The fund provided over £10,000 for the purchase of a special anaesthetic and monitoring equipment for children which aimed to improve the service provided by the York and North Yorkshire Magnetic resonance imaging centre meaning that children no longer have to be referred to other hospitals outside the city.

Airedale Audiology Equipment
The fund provided funding for the purchase of Otoacoustic emission equipment for Airedale hospital in 2000. The aim of this equipment is to help lower the age of hearing loss diagnosis.