NURSES at children's hospice at home charity Jessie May are to be trained using high tech simulation pads on resuscitation manikins.

A four-figure donation from Standard Investments Charitable Foundation will pay for equipment allowing realistic emergency care training to 30 nurses working for the charity. It means that all 141 children on the caseload will benefit.

Head of fundraising Julian Withers said: “When providing home-based hospice care, for the most part, nurses employed by the charity care for the children in isolation. For this reason, the charity firmly believes that nurses require specific training to make sure the care provided is tailored to every child.

“The funding received from Aberdeen Standard Investments Charitable Foundation will help us maintain the very highest level of clinical care and ensure that families feel confident in leaving their child in our care.

Claire Drummond, head of charitable giving for the invetsment company, said: “Through this training, Jessie May nurses will be given the opportunity to learn and perfect procedures, such as resuscitation and intubation, in a situation that is as realistic as possible in order to provide these children with the highest quality of care.”

Since the charity was founded in 1996, 300 children and their families across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath & North East Somerset, and Swindon & Wiltshire have been given an open-ended commitment for as long as the child and the family required, with inbuilt flexibility to cope with changing needs.