This year to celebrate Southport Flower Show, Southport & Formby hospital is inviting local children to send in their best artwork, to be in with a chance of winning two tickets to the show. The winner will also have their work professionally framed and mounted on the stand at the show, then displayed in the hospital after the event.



Mini-artists should try to show what the NHS means to them, using whatever medium they choose. Send pictures to Philippa Bray at Southport hospital, before 4pm on Monday 13 August. Three categories cover the under 11s, 11-16, and 16 plus.



The hospital has a recruitment stand at the flower show this year, to reach out to local people about the vast array of careers available within the NHS and at the local hospitals in Southport and Ormskirk.