"When you’re on the wards you’re in it and you just charge on. But when you get home, it sinks in what you’ve seen that day…staff will need long term help when all this is over."

“Hospital can be a very scary place, irrespective of what age you are, but particularly if you are a child or a young person. So we have a responsibility to make it less intimidating so that their hospital experience is the best that it can be.” 

Sign up for the Kilometres for King's challenge to walk, run, swim, cycle, hop skip or jump in support of our hospitals. 

With our hospitals right on the front line of the greatest health crisis in generations, we rose to the challenge to provide additional practical, emotional and psychological support to our heroic NHS staff, vulnerable patients and their families.

Meet Jessie John (7) – charity ambassador, fundraiser and campaigner for more fun in hospitals.  He wants to raise money to buy play equipment for young patients at King’s and the item at the top of his wish list is a slide.

A patient at King’s College Hospital in London has played the violin while surgeons removed a tumour from her brain, using a cutting-edge intraoperative ultrasound machine funded by King's College Hospital Charity.