• The great orange oasis: inside Liverpool’s floating mental health centre

    The great orange oasis: inside Liverpool’s floating mental health centre
    Forget dreary hospital wings with long windowless corridors. Alder Hey’s new light-filled outpost for young patients has a virtual ocean, a giant xylophone and a US-style diner that’s straight out of the 50sA chubby bronze bird perches on the roof of a bright orange building at the Alder Hey children’s hospital, craning its neck to keep tabs on all who enter. On a bench nearby, a smaller bird looks up, its wings tentatively spread, as though plucking up the courage to join its

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