THE winner of Dudley CCG’s ‘NHS of the future’ drawing competition has been announced.

Ten-year-old Harrison Cooke of St Margaret’s at Hasbury CofE Primary School in Halesowen was chosen from more than 170 entries submitted by children across the borough.

The competition was launched by Dudley CCG back in April 2018 – as part of the NHS 70th birthday celebrations – asking children to send in their ideas, with Harrison impressing the judges the most with his invention to aid memory loss.

He produced a detailed drawing of his invention which he called the ‘Memory Retrieval Headphones’ which scans the brains of people suffering from memory loss and projects the image onto a TV screen connected to the headphones.

His entry was also accompanied with a well-written description of how the headphones would work.

Laura Broster, director of communications and public insight at Dudley CCG, said: “We were especially keen to involve children and young people in our celebrations, using the birthday as a chance to explore what it is like working in the NHS and helping to capture their imaginations as they learn about exciting breakthroughs in medical science and look back over how things were done 70 years ago.

“This was a unique opportunity to work with young people to reflect on what the NHS was like at its inception 70 years ago and what it might look like in another 70 years.

“We would like to say a massive thank you to all of the children who sent in their ideas, they were all wonderful.”

All of the entries were displayed at the NHS70 Birthday Party held at Brierley Hill Civic Hall and were shortlisted by Dudley CCG’s Paul Maubach, chief executive officer, and Richard Corner, of Fastaid Black Country.

The winning entry was chosen Dudley North MP Ian Austin during the event, who said: “I was delighted to choose a winning entry, it was very difficult because they were all brilliant but I thought Harrison’s design was absolutely fantastic.

“It was great to attend the NHS70 celebrations and I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard for the NHS and to care for people in our community in Dudley and across the country.”

The prize for winning the competition is CPR training for Harrison’s school provided by Fastaid Black Country which has been funded by Alscient.