Like most hospitals, Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre is a labyrinth of long, starkly lit corridors, confusing signs and hundreds of doorways. Imagine how a child or young person must feel if asked to spend weeks or months in such an environment.
What's more, most hospitals are a youth work-free zone. But all that could be about to change because of the work of one pioneering woman in Nottingham. For Donna Hilton, all young people should have access to good quality youth work - being in hospital is no excuse for them missing out. Hilton is manager of the youth service at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which last November won CYP Now's Children and Young People's Services Award for best youth project. The project runs a daily drop-in service inside the sprawling Queen's Medical Centre - the city's main hospital - and a twice-weekly youth club, as well as residential programmes for groups with medical conditions such as diabetes.
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