Our Impact

Thanks to you, we can establish more Roald Dahl Nurses across the UK.

  Partnerships
with over
   85 NHS Trusts
      across the UK

We highly value our relationships with the NHS, creating and innovating children's healthcare with them, improving outcomes and lives more marvellous.

 Over
     250
   Roald Dahl
     Nurses

"If we didn't have our Roald Dahl Nurse, we'd feel completely alone." Parent of a seriously ill child.

 Supporting
  more than
     50,000
children with lifelong,
  complex conditions
   across the UK

Roald Dahl Nurse Specialists are a vital lifeline to the children and their families, supporting them clinically and emotionally.

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Strategic Outcomes

Improved quality and experience of care

Roald Dahl Nurses act as the one point of contact into service for both parents and health professionals alike.

Provision of Holistic family-centred care

Family centred care is embraced as a core responsibility and value by Roald Dahl Nurses.

Improved cost efficiencies and cost effectiveness

Roald Dahl Nurses focus on increasing efficiency, reducing resource wastage and parental complaints, and improving patient experience.

Demonstrating Leadership and Innovation

To improve the quality and experience of care provided, sustainably deliver high-quality holistic family-centred care, and improve efficiencies and cost effectiveness, Roald Dahl Nurses execute high levels of clinical reasoning, decision making and critical analysis.

The role of a Roald Dahl Nurse

Impact and Research

35 Years Supporting Seriously Ill Children Report

2026 report documenting the vital impact and need for Roald Dahl Children with Medical Complexity Nurse Specialists.

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Roald Dahl CMC Nurse Specialist Report

Written in 2024 to document the vital impact and need for Roald Dahl Children with Medical Complexity Nurse Specialists.

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Highlights of Sheffield Hallam University Study

In 2021, Sheffield Hallam University independently evaluated, from the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups, the role and impact of Roald Dahl Nurses.

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What the charity has done for us is priceless. We need our Roald Dahl Nurse.
 
- Parent of a seriously ill child

Please donate today and help provide every seriously ill child with a Roald Dahl Nurse. You can give a single donation or a monthly or annual gift - Thank you.

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