Following millions of pounds raised, Zoe’s Place Liverpool baby hospice is now a new independent charity, Liverpool Zoe’s Place.
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00:00A children's hospice in Liverpool threatened with closure has finalised plans to build a new facility in West Derby.
00:08Millions of pounds was raised to pay for a new home for Zoe's Place late last year.
00:12Following the incredible support from the people and organisations of the city and beyond,
00:16Zoe's Place Liverpool Baby Hospice has now transferred from being part of Zoe's Place Trust to new independent charity, Liverpool Zoe's Place.
00:24The trustees took the decision to transfer ownership of the hospice to those behind the successful campaign to fund a new home for the hospice in autumn 2024.
00:35The new independent charity has as its patron MP for West Derby Ian Byrne and has six trustees who bring clinical charity and business expertise to the charity.
00:45With the support of the people, charities and businesses in and around the city and country,
00:50Liverpool Zoe's Place has finalised plans to build the hospice's new home at Hayman's Green.
00:55The hospice supports babies, children and their families who are faced with life-limiting, life-threatening or complex medical conditions.
01:04Karen Lives, the chair of Liverpool Zoe's Place, said,
01:07We could not have done any of this without the support and generosity of the people of Liverpool.
01:12The next step is to put a spade in the ground for the state-of-the-art new centre.
01:16Zoe's Place was founded in Liverpool in 1995,
01:19with the name Zoe chosen as it means gift of life in Greek.
01:24In 2004, a second Zoe's Place opened in Middlesbrough,
01:27and in 2011, the third hospice opened in Coventry.
01:30Hospice care hasn't always been seen as being part of mainstream medicine,
01:34so hospice facilities have tended to emerge.
01:37Independently, the NHS funds, on average,
01:39less than 30% of the cost of all of the care that hospices provide.
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