Children's Transplant Foundation was registered with the Charity Commission in 1996, with the aim of significantly helping those children who require transplants, their parents and the hospitals that provide the surgery and support. By having a wide range objectives we aimed to help as many people as possible, something our founder members, some of whom had worked in the charity industry had not always been able to achieve.

We were pleased to allow grants in many areas including training for doctors and nurses, some of the training courses, the nurses have to pay for themselves. We also wanted to help increase the numbers of young doctors coming into Transplant Medicine, the trustess thought the provision of video-conferencing equipment could aid development in this field.

This equipment could enable consultations to be held with a patient many miles away, give scope for second opinions and improve communications between hospitals and remote departments