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Radio Lollipop is a charitable organization providing a care, comfort, play and entertainment service for children in hospital. It organizes Volunteer Playmakers to spend time with children in wards or in special play areas, taking its name from the radio stations it runs in hospitals playing children's programming - part-presented by children themselves.




History


Radio Lollipop was founded in 1978 at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in Surrey, England, at first primarily as a cable-wired station for the 460 children in the hospital. The station made its first broadcast on 5 May 1979, when the first Radio Lollipop went on-air.
Following the success of the first station, the International Year of the Child Committee provided funding in 1980 to develop Radio Lollipops in other British hospitals.
Over time, emphasis shifted from the radio station to volunteers spending time on wards entertaining children in person, by playing games, doing arts and crafts, and reading stories. However, the "radio", with children's programming and often presenting on-air, remains a central part of the charity. Programming consists of on-air presenter-banter with children, interspersed with request songs, comedy and competitions. In most hospitals, the programme is wired to speakers in wards, rather than actually broadcast, but a central studio, with on-air presenters, provides a focal point and base, and is open to children. There is a project under-way to carry feed from other hospitals in different time zones throughout the day, via the internet. Radio Lollipop is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, usually a mix of city business people, retirees and medical students, and usually operates in the evenings.
In 1985, the first Radio Lollipop outside the UK was started at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia. It was brought to Perth by Steve and Pat Salter, a couple from the United Kingdom. From that beginning, the organisation has expanded to hospitals in the east coast of Australia, New Zealand, and America.
Radio Lollipop is in one of the largest specialist children referral hospitals in the world, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where it provides play services to children in 390 beds on 21 wards. It originally broadcast radio from, and held play sessions in, a former Jubilee line tube train that was craned into the hospital and converted to house the Radio Lollipop studio.




Locations






= Australia

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Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
St John of God Murdoch Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia
Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia
St John of God Midland Hospital, Midland, Western Australia
Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, Western Australia
Armadale Kelmscott District Memorial Hospital, Armadale, Western Australia
Rockingham, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland
Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland
Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Queensland
Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Queensland
Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria




= New Zealand

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Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland
Kidz First, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland
Waitakere Hospital, Auckland
Manukau SuperClinic, Auckland
Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch
Whangarei Base Hospital, Whangārei




= United Kingdom

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Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton
Manchester Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Evelina Children's Hospital, London




= United States

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Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston




= South Africa

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New Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital, Johannesburg




References






External links


Radio Lollipop website

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