PRIZE-winning pupil Mariella Kaye has shared her design for the hospital of the future with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Mariella, eight, from Knutsford, won the Your NHS art competition in Manchester.

The competition invited primary school children to get creative to mark £72.3 million of government investment to develop a new adult mental health care unit in Manchester.

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Mariella looks at her art work

It was open to all primary schools across Manchester, and invited children to share their vision for the ideal hospital or healthcare centre of the future.

Mariella attends Manchester High School for Girls, and the judges were very impressed by her imaginative and inspiring design.

They particularly enjoyed her science fiction inspiration and how her drawing looks into the future by imagining robotic pharmacies, a birthing box that delivers babies in under three minutes pain free, a scanning machine which updates on your healing progress and a giant slide that sprays antibiotics to treat patients.

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Mariella with the Health Secretary

Mariella said: “I can’t believe I’ve won the competition. I had so much fun coming up with ideas for the hospital of the future.

“Hospitals make me happy knowing they help people young and old when we are sick or injured, and save lives.”

The competition received 3,000 entries from 60 schools in Cornwall, Greater Manchester, Herefordshire, Lincolnshire, Luton, North East London, Norwich, South Yorkshire, Tameside and Glossop and Wirral.

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Mariella's winning design

Mariella was one of the 10 winners who travelled to London to share their designs with the Prime Minister, Mariella being accompanied by her parents Hayley and James.

The artistic talents of Mariella and her fellow winners also won them £500 of art vouchers for their school. Mariella’s design will soon take pride of place in the new adult mental health care unit, along with the designs shortlisted as area finalists.