The Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorders Appeal
The Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorders Appeal is the first fundraising appeal launched by the Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust, and aims to raise £150,000. This money is desperately needed to improve the care of leukaemia, myeloma, lymphoma and bone marrow transplant patients as well as those suffering from several other blood disorders, from across South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and beyond.
How the Appeal will make a difference
This appeal aims to provide all of the equipment needed for new specialist wards and day rooms that are being built at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. Although government funding will buy the bricks and mortar, charitable money is needed to ensure the new wards have all the equipment they need. This ranges from vital medical equipment to furniture for a new dayroom, and from specialist patient chairs to Playstations.
The project as a whole will deliver the following patient benefits:
- The number of en–suite side isolation rooms will increase from just five, to eleven, providing improved infection control and reducing the pressure on other wards that currently care for infected blood disorder patients. It will also increase the capacity of the ward to treat patients, and vastly improve their environment – essential when patients could be in isolation for months at a time.
- The reduced risk of infection will mean that there is far less chance of the wards having to be closed due to an infection outbreak.
- The day ward will be expanded to cope with increased demand. This forms part of the ongoing work by the hospital to reduce the length of stay for in-patients, but it will also mean the day ward becomes a much more pleasant and relaxing place for patients to be.
- The bone marrow transplant service will be consolidated onto a single site, providing an improved, safer area for this procedure.
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- A dedicated facility for teenagers and young people will be a fantastic improvement for these younger patients, who have unique requirements, and who are often based in hospital for long periods of time.