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Issue 21
January - May, 2014
In this issue
PAGE 2: Christmas across our
hospitals
Run Five Miles, Raise BIG Smiles
Finlay is nine years old. In August he was
diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of
bone cancer. Since then he has spent most
of his time in the Oxford Children’s Hospital
having chemotherapy and three lengthy
operations to remove some of his leg bone.
Finlay’s made a good friend in hospital with
five year old Zac, who, like him, comes from
Witney. Zac has leukaemia, but that’s not
what the children talk about. When they
feel well enough they love to play and they’re
enjoying the new 3D TV system that’s on the
ward, to provide distraction and fun.
Finlay and Zac’s mums have both signed up for
our annual five mile fun run, the Oxford Mail
OX5RUN which starts at 10.30am on Sunday
30 th March. They’re running together with a
team of friends.
Suzanne, Finlay’s mum, explains : ‘You
never think it is going to be your child. It’s
devastating. But the care at the hospital has
been absolutely fantastic and Finlay is doing
really well. I am not a runner, but I just want
to raise as much money as I can so that other
children can have the best equipment, like
Finlay has.’
Zac’s mum, Tabitha adds: ‘Running is helping
us through this difficult time. It’s good to be
able to do something positive that will help
our children and many others.’
The Oxford Mail OX5RUN, sponsored by Allen
Associates, has raised half a million pounds
over the last 11 years. Last year’s run alone
raised a massive £98,000 and has helped
fund the 3D TV system Finlay and Zac love,
as well as two open incubators for babies
in Paediatric Intensive Care, an ultrasound
machine for minimally invasive surger y,
and high-tech equipment to help research
childhood meningitis and septicaemia.
Please join Suzanne and Tabitha, and raise
some big smiles for Finlay, Zac and all the
children we treat at the Children’s Hospital
and children’s services across the Trust. You
can run, jog, or even walk the five miles, enter
on your own or as part of a team. Find out
more at www.hospitalcharity.co.uk/ox5run
or call 01865 743444.
News for Supporters of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds
PAGE 5: New Head and Neck
Cancer facilities open
Support
PAGE 6: Heart Your
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nearly
£80,000!
Hospital Charity
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poignant Christmas messages we have
received. Each year we send supporters a Christmas
card to say thank you and include the opportunity to make a
festive donation and write a message on a Christmas tag to
decorate one of our hospital trees. We are so very grateful for all
the donations that are returned and all the very special messages.
As well as raising thousands for our hospitals, the Christmas tags
give us the chance to share your good wishes, thanks, and kind
words with patients, visitors and colleagues across the Trust.
We endeavour to make sure personal messages reach the staff
for whom they are intended, and we now put all the messages
on our website (respecting your anonymity) so that patients,
supporters and staff can see them. Please take a moment to read
them at www.hospitalcharity.co.uk/messages.
Festive Cheer!
Over the Christmas period
we received visits from choirs,
groups and organisations wishing to
make all our hospitals
that little bit more festive.
The Children’s Hospital was
particularly busy with
Oxford’s New Theatre, RAF
Benson, RAF Falcons, Oxford
United, London Welsh, Las Iguanas
restaurant, H café and many other
generous groups and individuals
coming in to share Christmas cheer
as well as plenty of gifts!
Thank you to all of them.
Spending Christmas in hospital isn’t
easy for anyone – young or old, and we
know that Christmas and the New Year
can be a period of reflection when we
think of loved ones that are no longer
with us. For those of you struggling to
cope with loss we extend our thoughts.
Some of our supporters have gained positive strength by setting
up a ‘tribute fundraising page’ in memory of a loved one. If
you would like to support your chosen hospital cause in this
way, visit www.justgiving.com/oxfordradcliffe and click on the
‘remembering’ link or call us on 01865 743444.
Your gifts and donations make a huge difference throughout the
year in our hospitals – not just at Christmas. In the last financial
year alone, over £2.3 million was donated to our hospital causes
and a further £1.8 million given through legacies.
As 2014 starts we would like to thank all of you for the amazing
support you give our hospitals. We simply couldn’t do it without you.
THANK YOU
The Fundraising Team
Remember, we have a team ded
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Fundraisers’ News
Thank you to all our supporters whose energy, enthusiasm and imagination continues to inspire. Please tell us
about your fundraising and we will try to include your picture. Email sarah.vaccari@ouh.nhs.uk or call 01865 743428
Volunteer Awards
Joe Robinson, who raised over
£35,000 for Neuro Intensive Care
after surviving a horrific car crash,
and the Play2Give team of Teresa
Strike, Dale Harris and Andrew Baker
received Oxfordshire Charity and
Volunteer Awards in the Autumn.
Congratulations to them all.
English Youth Ballet
The English Youth Ballet raised £2,609 for the Children’s Hospital through exit
collections at the end of performances of Swan Lake at the New Theatre in Oxford.
Thank you to all those who took part.
Red Dog Riders
Recognition for
I.M.P.S.
A group of dads from South
Oxfordshire raised £2,700 for the
Children’s Hospital by riding from
Benson in Oxfordshire to Santander
in Northern Spain.The 800 mile ride
took them through three countries
and across the Pyrenees and they
completed it in just 10 days.
Youthful Support
Congratulations to I.M.P.S. (Injury
Minimization Programme for Schools) for
being recognised by the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Accidents, with a
LASER award. I.M.P.S. teaches primary
school children across Oxfordshire
first aid skills, including CPR and using
an automated defibrillator.
Erika’s on the go!
As well as training for the London
Marathon, Erika Dallimore has been
organising pub quizzes and raffles to
help boost her fundraising total. She
is running in support of the Oncology
Ward at the Churchill, where her
mum has been treated.
Local teenagers taking part in the
National Citizen Service raised £563
through a fundraising day on the
Cowley Road.
dicated to helping your fundraising efforts. Call us on 01865 743444 or visit www.hospitalcharity.co.uk
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Cancer Causes
Chair of the Cancer Benefactors Board, Neil Ashley with Kenneth Cranham, Phillip Pullman and Ed Bernard (Cancer Benefactors Board).
A Magical Evening
at Ditchley
Janet Sprake writes:
‘Driving into the Ditchley Park estate was dark and quiet.
The floodlit Mansion looked spectacular and the row
of lanterns lighting the guests’ way to the West Wing
entrance made the approach magical.
Once inside, guests were greeted by roaring fires, trays
of drinks and tasty canapés and a superb Christmas tree
beautifully decorated in the Great Hall. Guests listened
with awe to the choir, the Oxford Collutorium under
Dr Will Orr’s direction, and their outstanding
performance was interspersed with communal carols, all
sung with great gusto.
It was a privilege to hear Phillip Pullman read from his
own, ‘Northern Lights’ and Kenneth Cranham was given
a standing ovation for his recitation of Chant Pagan by
Rudyard Kipling.
We are so grateful to all those who attended this magical
evening supporting the Cancer Care Fund and Urology
Development Fund. Many thanks also to the guest
readers and the event sponsors, pictured above.’
See our new website: www.hospitalcharity.co.uk
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Kind-hearted QUILTers
This was my first experience of hospital care in
Oxfordshire and I felt like the only patient on the ward,
since no matter how busy they were, day or night, I
never felt staff rushed on to their next task, but always
spent time talking to me and caring for me.
The facilities provided were tremendous too, thanks
partly to the fundraising by Jane Ashley’s family and
subsequent grateful patients. It was so lovely to be able
to go and make a drink for visitors, and to enjoy the
wonderful garden.
The Cup Cake Quilters based in Burford
raised nearly £1,800 for the Jane Ashley
Centre at the Cancer Centre, by putting on
a three day quilting exhibition. The money
they have raised will fund an audio library
in this area, allowing patients free access to
audio books and music throughout their stay.
Wendy Atkinson writes:
‘As someone who hadn’t been in hospital since I was a
child, the diagnosis of uterine cancer in 2010 came as
somewhat of a shock.
However the fear and anxiety that naturally comes
was quickly reduced, thanks to the hospital team. From
arrival to departure I was so impressed by every single
member of staff I met at the Oxford Cancer Centre
and the Jane Ashley Centre within it.
So, when Steph from Cupcake Cottons in Burford
decided to hold a Patchwork and Quilting Exhibition I
offered to help, and in our early discussions we talked
about which charity we could support with our raffle
and refreshments.
I had done some small scale fundraising for the Jane
Ashley Centre as a thank you for the tremendous
care I had received and having told Steph about my
experience she agreed that this would be a worthy
cause to support, especially as the exhibition celebrated
a traditionally female hobby.
What was interesting was that while selling raffle tickets
in the months before the exhibition, so many people said
that they too had been patients on the ward.
The three day exhibition had over 600 visitors, and
raised nearly £1,800. As a group we are thrilled to
have been able to use our hobby to raise such a large
amount of money for such a worthy local cause. It
means a lot to know exactly where our money is going
and how it will be spent and it feels great to have been
able to say thank you to the staff in this way.’
New Head and Neck Cancer facilities open
Heads Up patron and former England cricketer, Hugh
Morris, joined patients and their families, consultants,
nurses, speech therapists and dieticians at the official
opening of the Blenheim Head and Neck Cancer Unit
at Oxford’s Cancer and Haematology Centre in
September.
The new integrated Unit now supports all inpatient and
outpatient care related to head and neck cancer, enabling
patients to receive all their treatment in one location.
The opening was marked by speeches from Hugh Morris,
himself a former patient, Graham Cox, Lead Head and
Neck Consultant, Geoffrey Salt, Non-Executive Director
and Vice Chairman of the Trust and Neil Cowan,
General Manager for the division.
Special thanks were given to all those who have
fundraised continually for the unit and Heather Talbot,
Blenheim Ward Sister and all the team were praised for
their hard work in supporting the move.
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Oxford Heartfelt Appeal
Thanks to your support of the Heartfelt Appeal, work is poised to start on the new Cardiology
Outpatients and Imaging Unit within the John Radcliffe Hospital. The department will have the very
latest cardiac imaging technology available and be able to perform more scans, collaborate in leading
research and perform more complex assessments and lifesaving procedures. It will also provide a much
more comfortable space for patients. We would like to thank everyone who has supported this appeal
and look forward to sharing photos with you in the next edition of TORCH.
Alexandra’s fundraising raises £80,000!
You may have read about
Alexandra Williams’ mission
to raise funds for the Heartfelt
Appeal, following her husband
having an aortic dissection of the
heart in 2012. This is a rare and
very serious cardiac condition,
but thanks to the 24/7 Heart
Centre facilities in Oxford, Nick
was very quickly undergoing
lengthy and very complicated
heart surgery and his condition
was eventually stabilised.
Alexandra pledged to raise
£50,000 to thank the staff at
the Heart Centre that saved her
husband’s life, and treated him
and her family so well. In less
than a year she has in fact raised
£80,000!
The majority of this amazing sum was raised through an art auction that took
place in September 2013. The whole family was involved with every detail;
taking the photographs, serving the drinks and canapés, filming the speeches.
Alexandra’s parents, Lord and Lady Heseltine, also attended, joining a full
house of 150 guests.
Alexandra gave a speech on the night, prompting both laughter and tears. The
expert auctioneers Mark Ashley and James Lees, from Holloway’s Auctioneers in
Banbury, captured the enthusiasm of the room and made sure the majority of
lots sold at or above their list price.
Andrew House, Head of Major Gifts said: ‘Alexandra’s passion and energy for
this cause has been remarkable and the hospital charity and Oxford Heart Centre
team are hugely grateful for all that she, her family and friends have achieved. It’s
been inspirational.’
Alexandra said: ‘I could not have raised the amount I did without the huge support
of my friends, the local media, and my links with Country Life magazine that
produced the highest bid of the evening. More importantly thanks must go to the
40 artists and galleries who donated the auction items which raised just under
£50,00 on the night itself. You cannot say thank you enough either, to the staff and
the surgeons who on the day in question quite literally saved Nick’s life.’
YOU can donate £1 to £10 to the Heart Centre Campaign by texting OXHC12 to 70070
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Hearty Half Marathon
Fundraising from the heart
Following a heart attack, Buckinghamshire
broadcaster, Richard Carr, put his entertainment
experience to great use and organised a variety
night for the Heartfelt Appeal.
Called From the Heart, it took place at the Waterside
Theatre in Aylesbury and featured a showcase of local
talent, dance schools, musicians and comedy.
Richard explains: ‘The show went brilliantly, and I am
delighted to be able to announce that we raised £4,500
for the Heartfelt Appeal. I’d like to thank all those
that contributed in so many ways. It is wonderful to
be able to thank the medics who looked after me by
giving something back in this way.’
Neil Tate writes:
‘In March 2013 I was rushed into the John Radcliffe
Hospital from my home near Milton Keynes suffering
from supraventricular tachycardia, or an SVT for short
– an episode where the heart beats much too fast. The
paramedics were worried I might be having a heart
attack and this was a huge shock as I was very fit.
The attention and treatment I received from everyone in
the Oxford Heart Centre was just fantastic and after a
few days of wonderful care I was allowed home. I returned
to the unit a month later to have an ablation under
Dr Betts and his team and my heart was fixed, in and out
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give something back to the unit.
I ran the Great Birmingham Half Marathon in October in a
personal best time of 1.36.04 which I was really pleased
with and a bit surprised! I’m pleased to say that I have
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Children’s Hospital…
Dance, dance wherever you may be…
Remembering Ciara. Keith Wooller, Ciara’s father, writes:
‘Ciara Wooller was a healthy, sporty, happy child, with a love
for animals, JLS and chocolate. She excelled at Irish dance
and her home is still overflowing with trophies and medals.
As she grew up football took over, and Ciara played for
the Reading Under 13s girls team (a year up) and her school
football team wearing the no. 2 shirt.
She also played hockey, and netball for the school team
and was part of the school athletics team, Ciara intended
joining rugby at school to compete more with her elder
and younger brother.
Ciara’s idea of a perfect day involved football, (anything pink
her favourite colour) dad’s curry for dinner, (chocolate)and
then snuggling up on the sofa with the family and her cats
watching Wild at Heart on TV. She adored animals and may
well have become a vet.
Everything changed in January 2012. It happened at a pace
that we still can’t quite believe. Ciara had a sore eye and
visited the GP, no infection was found and didn’t seem
serious and was treated with cream. Over the next day
the pain got worse and she was not eating, so was taken
to a hospital in Reading where she was fully examined by
the ophthalmic department. They thought she had sinus
problems so antibiotics were prescribed. Overnight she
vomited and was taken back to the hospital where stronger
antibiotics were prescribed. That evening her eye was
swollen and she vomited again. We took her back to the
hospital in Reading, where she was examined and was to be
kept in overnight, but before being admitted she collapsed.
After a short while we were told our daughter’s life was in
the balance and she was rushed to the JR in Oxford. On
arrival she had a second scan and we were then told that
there was nothing they could do. Tragically Ciara could not
be saved.
In the midst of indescribable pain the family decided that
they would prefer donations to flowers at Ciara’s funeral and
her uncle set up an online tribute page for donations and
messages. Amazingly, close to £14,000 has now been raised
and this has purchased a portable vital signs monitor that
can be used when transporting very sick children between
the Intensive Care Unit and other areas within the hospital.
It is impossible to describe the shock and grief we are still
going through. We can however draw some strength from
knowing that this important medical equipment will help
other families.
We are so grateful for all the things people have done to
raise money for this equipment. The support of school
friends at St Paul’s and Theale Green School is very special.
The School and children planted a 1st anniversary magnolia
tree in the school grounds in Ciara’s memory and fundraised
for beautiful benches at the school and Church as a tribute.
Donations came from everywhere – my wife’s colleagues
and pupils at Little Heath’s School, Barton Rovers (her
youngest brother’s football team) Reading Girls Football
team, the enormous generosity of the company I work for
(ADM Milling), colleagues, neighbours friends, family and
even strangers. Ciara’s football friends organised a charity
fete at Little Dragons Nursery, which was attended by
Reading Football Club players. The whole of the Berkshire
football league teams had a minute’s silence.
Ciara’s teams now no longer use the no. 2 on shirts and have
these framed at the School and Club. Reading Girls also
have an annual winners team trophy as a tribute to Ciara.
As we reach the two year anniversary of losing Ciara we
want to. Thank them all.’
Visit: www.justgiving.com/remember/3202/Ciara-Wooller
Online Pages to remember a loved one can be made at: www.justgiving.co.uk/oxfordradcliffe
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Amie’s Amazing Fundraising
17 year old Amie Ing is a lady who knows how to get
things done. In September, 2013, she organised a fancy dress
golf day at Aylesbury Park Golf Club.
The event, together with a raffle and auction raised an
incredible £2,040 for Melanie’s Ward, at the Children’s
Hospital. She managed all this amazing fundraising with
help from friends and family, whilst studying at 6th form.
Amie was diagnosed with the cancer Ewing’s Sarcoma in
2007 and since then she has undergone major surgery and
radiotherapy.
Amie and her family would like to thank everyone who
helped make the event such a success.
Terry Bird has been a busy bee!
…to all the organising committee of the
Blenheim Gala Dinner in support of the
Oxford Children’s Hospital for working
tirelessly to organise such a wonderful event.
Thank you also to all the guests who helped
to raise over £45,000 which will fund a state
of the art echo cardiac scanner for children
having their heart scanned.
Play2Give
The Somerset dad hardly
stopped running in 2013,
raising over £4,000 for
children’s charities, including
£1,500 for Oxford Children
Hospital’s Craniofacial Unit.
He started with the Bristol 10k, the Cheddar Gorge 10k
and then the challenging Cheddar Gorge half-marathon,
followed by Weston Grand Pier half-marathon. Terry
explains why:
‘My Godson James Christopher was born in June 2008,
with a condition known as Saggital Synostosis – his skull
had fused together before it should, forcing his brain to
grow in whichever direction it could. He had two incredibly
complex operations to rebuild his skull at the John Radcliffe’s
Craniofacial Unit and today he is a beautiful perfect little boy.’
‘My own son, Joshua Lewis Bird was born with unilateral
cleft lip and gum. Josh had his first surgery in September
2010 and slowly but surely the lip has healed beautifully.’
‘So I have also been running for my local hospital services
as well as the Oxford team. And now the 2014 London
Marathon awaits… I’m looking forward to the huge
personal challenge that will bring.’
The Play2Give team, which fundraises for the Children’s
Hospital, visited recently clutching a very large cheque. They
were accompanied by their event sponsors, the big-hearted
Breckon and Breckon and the Under 10s Oxford City Nomads,
the young footy team that raised the most money at their
summer’s Play2Give tournament. The summer event, which
returns in July 2014, raised over £4,800!
‘So many amazing people have supported me through
all this and been so generous and I would like to say a
huge thank you to all of them (especially my amazing wife
Michelle). But most of all I would like to thank these two
little boys who have been such an inspiration.’
Don’t forget to sign up for the Ox5RUN
on Sunday 30 March – find out more at
www.hospitalcharity.co.uk/ox5run
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Other news…
150 Abseil for Hospital Causes
A sunny September day saw 150 people taking part in our latest hospital abseil.
Hospital Radio kept the tunes pumping, and a crowd cheered throughout the
day, as two by two, the fundraisers descended the 100 foot wall of the Women’s
Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
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The event raised over £40,000 for hospital causes,
including Transplant, the Breast Reconstruction Awareness
Group, the Heartfelt Appeal, Oxford Children’s Hospital and
the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.
First on the ropes were staff and supporters of the
Transplant Development Fund. 74-year-old Sylvia
Franklin from Botley, who abseiled with her daughter,
Melanie Burns, said: ‘Melanie transports dialysis patients
to the hospital, so it was a cause we wanted to support;
also abseiling has always been on my bucket list! I thought
I’d be really nervous, but once I got over the ledge I
actually really enjoyed it and the view was fantastic.’
Consultant Nikki Petrie, and a team of staff from the
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, abseiled
with patients and family members in support of Oxford
Breast Reconstruction Awareness Group, which
helps women through breast cancer related surgery.
Nikki explains: ‘It was a fantastic day and we were
overwhelmed by the support from the crowds watching
and those who sponsored us.’
Emma and Steven Radley organised a team of 22 people
to abseil raising funds for the Newborn Intensive
Care Unit. The family are now close to having raised
£50,000 in memory of their son William, who died aged
just 4 and a half months.
Another large group, The Brackley Suspenders, abseiled
for the Children’s Hospital, where several of their
group have had children looked after.
Also abseiling for the Children’s Hospital was 74-yearold Bill Humphries, tackling his third abseil, and this time
he’d roped in his son John to take part. Bill’s 16 year
old grandson, Oliver, who came to cheer them on, was
treated for a malignant brain tumour when he was 12.
Bill said: ‘I never had a chance to do this sort of thing
as a boy so I am making up for it now. It’s a wonderful
opportunity to give something back to the hospital that
has looked after Oliver.’
A team from South Oxfordshire District Council also
took part, together with members of the Pullen family,
abseiling in memory of Maggie Pullen for the Heartfelt
Appeal. Also abseiling for the appeal were mother and
daughter Gaynor and Beth Williams.
Head of Community Fundraising, Graham Brogden,
said: ‘This was one of the busiest abseils we’ve ever had,
and we are delighted that so many people managed
to conquer their fears and take on the 100 foot wall.
THE Abseil is a wonderful way for people to show their
support for the hospital causes closest to their hearts.
We have three coming up in 2014, so why not sign up
today?’
It costs just £10 to enter. Visit www.hospitalcharity.
co.uk/abseils to find out more, email charity@ouh.
nhs.uk or call us on 01865 743444. The list of all the
areas taking part in the 2014 abseils is in the diary section
overleaf.
YOU can donate to support causes across our hospitals by texting GIVE19 to 70070
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Torch-lite:
Oxford University Hospitals
NHS Trust
Become a member of your
local hospital trust
nAre
you interested in having a say on the way our
hospital services are developed?
nWould you like to be invited to talks about
developments in healthcare?
nWould you like to be able to elect members of
our Council of Governors (or stand to be one)?
nWould you like to be kept in touch with events in
our hospitals?
If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the above, we want you
to be part of our future.
The John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals and Nuffield
Or thopaedic Centre in Oxford, and the Hor ton
General Hospital in Banbury make up Oxford University
Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH).
We are applying to become an NHS Foundation Trust
and are building a public membership. We have nearly
7,000 public members but are aiming to recruit more
to complement our 11,000 staff members.
Membership is free. To find out more
or to join, visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/ft
or call 01865 743491 for a membership form.
News in brief from around the Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and
the University of Oxford were recognised as the Oxford
Academic Health Science Centre by the Department of
Health in November. This new partnership of Oxford’s
world-leading NHS trusts and academic institutions will
tackle the major healthcare challenges of the 21st century
and will allow scientific discoveries to move rapidly from
the laboratory to the patient.
We’d like to send out the very best of luck to all our
2014 London Marathon runners, who are training, come
rain or shine for the April event. See our next issue for
a full write up.
Hospital heroes – congratulations to colleagues across
our hospitals who won awards and all those nominated
for special staff recognition awards in December. The
ceremony focussed on staff that have shown outstanding
compassion, care and innovation. Two of the awards were
sponsored by the Oxford Mail and voted for by patients.
A new facility has opened at the Churchill Hospital’s
Haematology Ward. It gives transplant patients the
opportunity to be treated as an outpatient, enabling
them to go home more following a transplant.
Be part of our future
Simon’s Super Swim
Simon Liddiard writes:
‘On the 5th of May this year, I was knocked off my bike by a car whilst on a
family cycle ride and was admitted to the Trauma Unit at the JR with a badly
broken tibia. Bob Handley and his team expertly screwed my leg back together
over a series of operations.
To thank the team that patched me up a group of us decided to take on the
British Gas Swim Britain challenge at – a 4km relay race in the icy waters of the
lake at Blenheim Palace.
To say this was challenging is a massive understatement. Even getting into the
water was a real worry – wet surfaces and crutches can be a lethal combination.
The swim itself pushed me to my limit.
Amazingly, we not only got around the course, but raised over £3,000 for the
Trauma Unit in the process. It was a great way to say thanks to the Trauma
team for the excellent care I received in theatre and on the ward and to the
physio teams for looking after me afterwards.’
WHAT’S ON: For details of all events go to www.hospitalcharity.co.uk or call 01865 743444
2014: Sunday 30 March.
The Oxford Mail OX5 RUN
Run five miles at Beautiful Blenheim
Palace in suppor t of the Oxford
Supporting the Oxford Children’s Hospital
Children’s Hospitals and our Fund
for Children, supporting children’s causes across the Trust. Find out
more and sign up online at www.hospitalcharity.co.uk/ox5run or
call 01865 743444.
Sunday 15 June 2014. THE ABSEIL – 2
Blood Coagulation Research Fund, Cancer Care Fund, I.M.P.S. (Injury
Minimisation Programme for Schools), Pelvic Floor Fund, SCBU (Special
Care Baby Unit), Horton Hospital F Ward.
Sunday 21 September 2014. THE ABSEIL – 3
OUH General Funds, Silver Star, Chipping Norton Midwives, Fund for
Children and the Oxford Children’s Hospital.
For more information about the 2014 abseils, visit the events page
on www.hospitalcharity.co.uk or call 01865 743444.
We have three abseils taking place in
2014 for all manner of causes across our hospitals.
The 100 foot abseil from the top of the Women’s
Centre costs just £10 to enter and we ask you
to aim to raise £100 or more.
Find us on
search under
‘Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Funds’
Sunday 18 May 2014. THE ABSEIL – 1
Oxford Heart Centre, Heads Up (head and neck cancer), Ward 7D
and Adams and Bedford Wards (older patients), Paediatric Eye Fund,
JR Ashfield Trust (supporting parents following miscarriage and the
loss of a baby).
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