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Thanks to you

The projects below are just a small sample of the improvements that have happened during the last year as a result of your generous support.

Without your donations, fundraising efforts and volunteering activities, none of this would have been possible.

However, there is still much work that can be done to improve and enhance NHS facilities and services across Sheffield. Please continue to support us in our efforts to achieve this.

 

£12,179

Critical Care Equipment

The new equipment will enhance and promote critical care patient rehabilitation at both the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire hospitals. The equipment will be used to safely stand patients who are physically impaired and fatigued due to prolonged critical illness. The standing hoists reduce the physical handling of patients, making standing more comfortable for patients and staff.

 

£10,598

PCA CADD Pumps

The pumps replace the existing ones in use on Ward P3 at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. They enable transplant and sickle cell patients to administer their own pain control, giving them greater management and involvement in their individual care. The pumps also help prevent inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract, usually as an adverse effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.

 

£16,929

Conversion of bathroom to wet room

This grant enabled one of the existing bathrooms on Ward 4 at Weston Park Hospital to be converted into a wet room. The new wet room provides a shower facility to the 30 bedded oncology ward, allowing patients who are unable to use the treatment bath to have a wash facility suitable for their needs. It also allows patients who have changed physical abilities to be assessed as to their capability to use a shower in their own home upon discharge.

 

£20,350

Neurosurgical microvascular anastomosis bypass instrumentation

This equipment will enable further development of highly-specialised neurovascular surgical procedures at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The procedures concerned are well established internationally but still rarely undertaken in the UK. As well as direct patient benefit, the grant will also contribute to the development of the Royal Hallamshire as a leading centre for neurovascular surgery.

 

£40,000

Palliative Care Centre

The Charity has made two grants, totalling £40,000, to continue valuable additional services at the Palliative Care Centre at the Northern General Hospital. The oral history project supports patients to capture and pass on their thoughts through letters, art work and photographs. A separate grant makes complimentary therapies, such as reflexology, available to patients on the unit. The centre urgently needs new donations to enable these vital services to continue beyond the current grant.

 

£67,085

Welfare advice for patients with cancer

A cancer diagnosis can mean increased costs for patients, their families and friends, such as extra heating at home and reduced income. The Weston Park Cancer Information Centre provides advice on a full range of financial matters, including benefits, tax credits, debt and employment. Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust have recently made a grant to support this service for a further two year period.

 

£126, 393

Olympus endobronchial ultra-sound guided fiber videoscope (EBUS)

EBUS sets a new standard for diagnosis and staging in lung cancer. This equipment will provide a significant clinical benefit to patients as it avoids the need for more invasive tests. Sheffield will be the first unit in the country to have this specific equipment on site. The purchase was made possible by a generous legacy.

 

£5,063

Equipment for Critical Care Department

The new equipment at the Northern General Hospital will improve facilities within the staff counselling and appraisal rooms, staff rest rooms and the doctors' rest rooms. New furniture has also been purchased to improve the relatives waiting areas.

 

£11,780

Patient Experience Monitoring System

The electronic system, in use across Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, uses both portable and fixed electronic devices, to allow patients and visitors to comment on their experiences of the hospitals. The system will help monitor patient and visitor's views, enabling staff to identify and resolve any issues early, leading to practical and on-going improvements to services based on their feedback.

 

£109,276

Full Time Youth Worker

A full time youth worker was employed at Sheffield Children's Hospital, for a three year period, to develop and enhance service provision for teenagers. The youth worker is responsible for patient advocacy and support, awareness raising within the hospital and amongst external agencies, facilitation and encouragement, appropriate transition to adult services, organising and facilitating leisure and social activities, as well as ensuring that the teenagers needs and issues are given prominence and priority within the hospital setting.

 

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