A STATE of the art cinema has opened inside Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

The charity MediCinema has partnered with Alder Hey Children’s Charity to create a new state-of-the-art cinema inside the children’s hospital.

The specially designed in-hospital cinema opened its doors to patients and families on Sunday, November 24.

To celebrate the opening the cinema hosted an exclusive screening of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Moana 2 ahead of the film's premiere in London’s Leicester Square.

The cinema has been funded exclusively by Alder Hey Children’s Charity and MediCinema and is the only one in a solely paediatric hospital in the UK and the first in the North West.

The colourful space accommodates beds, wheelchairs, and medical equipment and will show the latest movies for free to transform the hospital experience for children and young people at Alder Hey.

Colin Lawrence, CEO of MediCinema said: “We are so proud of our MediCinema inside Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. We’ve been bringing the benefits of the big screen to patients in NHS hospitals for more than 20 years, and over that time seen the extraordinary range of impact and benefit it can have.

“We want to bring that positive impact to more NHS patients across the UK, and are delighted for the opportunity to do just that for close to 5000 children and their families every year at this prestigious hospital.”