Digital Innovation In Paediatric Care
Blinx Healthcare announces collaboration with Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
5-Minute Read • 14th January 2026
Blinx Healthcare is proud to announce a new collaboration with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to enhance paediatric care through modern, connected technology. The collaboration will support clinicians, operational teams, patients and families by enabling more seamless care delivery and intuitive digital experiences.
About Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Providing care for more than 450,000 children and young people each year, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s largest and busiest specialist children’s hospitals. The Trust delivers a broad range of physical and mental health services, while playing a leading role in paediatric research and innovation.
With a longstanding reputation for exceptional clinical care, Alder Hey continues to push the boundaries of modern paediatrics. Its commitment to innovation, research excellence, and improving patient experiences has established the Trust as a national and international leader in paediatric healthcare.
About Blinx Healthcare
Blinx Healthcare is a UK-based health technology company focused on transforming integrated care through PACO (the Patient and Care Optimiser). Designed to connect teams across primary, community, urgent, acute, mental health, and social care settings, PACO supports clinicians with clearer information, enhanced coordination and a more complete view of the patient journey.
Our mission is to build more connected neighbourhoods of care, enabling safer, more intuitive, and more personalised experiences for patients and staff.
A Collaboration to Enhance Care
This collaboration brings together Alder Hey’s ambition to advance the future of children’s healthcare with Blinx Healthcare’s commitment to building more connected, intelligence-driven care models.
Working in partnership, the organisations will explore new digital capabilities that strengthen how information flows across paediatric pathways – supporting clearer clinical content, smoother coordination, and more joined-up experiences for families.
As part of the collaboration, Blinx Healthcare will work closely with Alder Hey’s clinical, digital and operational teams to understand priority challenges and co-design targeted digital components that support the Trust’s strategic goals. These components are being developed specifically for Alder Hey’s needs and informed directly by clinician and patient feedback.
This work complements PACO, Blinx Healthcare’s connected-care platform, by ensuring that future digital solutions align with the real-world needs of paediatric teams and are designed to enhance the Trust’s existing workflows and systems.
At Alder Hey, our digital approach is always grounded in one clear purpose which is to improve the lives and experiences of children, young people and their families. This collaboration with Blinx reflects our commitment to using thoughtful, well-designed technology to support children, young people and families to digitally access our services easily and in a joined up way with other local health and care services. We are excited at the opportunity for families and our colleagues to strengthen care pathways and create more joined up, intuitive experiences across our services. By working closely with partners who understand the realities of paediatric care, we can continue to push digital innovation in ways that will make a huge difference.
Kate Warriner, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Strengthening Care and Patient Experience
The collaboration aims to strengthen the digital foundations that underpin Alder Hey’s pathways, enabling:
Improved care coordination:
More complete patient context and better continuity across care pathways
Support for clinicians:
Reduced administrative burden and greater confidence in multi-disciplinary workflows
Enhanced patient experience:
Smoother, more joined-up journeys for children, young people, and their families
Operational benefits:
Strengthened information flow across clinical and non-clinical teams, supporting safer, more collaborative, and more efficient care
By combining Alder Hey’s clinical expertise with modern digital tools, the collaboration lays the foundation for more connected, intelligence-driven paediatric care, while keeping the patient at the centre of every decision.
A Meaningful Step Forward for Paediatric Integrated Care
This collaboration represents a strategic milestone for both organisations:
For Alder Hey, it supports ongoing efforts to transform paediatric pathways using modern, data-enabled tools.
For Blinx Healthcare, it reinforces the mission to enable integrated neighbourhood and system-level care built around the needs of patients.
Together, the focus is clear: to build the foundations for more connected, intelligence-driven paediatric care across the UK.
Alder Hey brings the clinical expertise; we bring the tech to turn world-class paediatric care into world-class digital solutions. This partnership removes tech as the excuse and makes it the glue that holds joined-up care together – for children and young people, their families and carers, and for the healthcare professionals who support them.
Gareth Bartlett, CEO & Co-Founder of Blinx Healthcare
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