Past Friends Donations

Over the past year the Friends have refurbished many day rooms and relative rooms around the hospital to make patient and visitors stay in hospital a little more comfortable. The Friends have also bought much needed equipment that could not have otherwise been purchased.

Over the past years here is a selection of some of the things the Friends have donated:

• Refurbishment of the Fracture Clinic Waiting room - £30,000.

• £38,000 to refurnish and decorated Diabetic Waiting room.

• Funded self contained accommodation for relatives room in Intensive Care.

• £30,000 scanner for early diagnosis of bowel Cancer.

• £110,00 for Defibrillators – these save lives. The Friends donated defibrillators for every ward in the hospital in order to cut down the delay in resuscitating patients who have a heart attack.

• Money towards Hospital Radio which provides a service on the wards. This can really cheer a patient up when they are staying in hospital.

• Each year the Friends give money for the Hedgehog Club Children’s Christmas party for children staying in hospital at this time.

• £140,000 for the High Dependency Unit – This is a highly skilled unit to provide care for patients well enough to leave Intensive Care but not sufficiently recovered to be transferred to another ward.

• Aquaciser £10,000 – This machine greatly improves the condition of orthopaedic patients to enable them to return to an active life.

• £30,000 donation for patients diagnosis in the Breast Clinic.

• £182,000 – Monitors for the Intensive Care Unit.

• £40,000 – 20 Pain control machines for the acute pain service to help releave patients with chronic pain.

• Medical Short Stay Ward - £2700 for the patients and relatives room.

• Charlotte Room – gynaecology patients are able to leave the ward and relax and eat in a separate room especially designed and furnished for them.

• £140,000 – Monitors for the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.

DONATIONS FROM THE FRIENDS TO THE HOSPITAL
OCTOBER 2006 – SEPTEMBER 2007

£ 1,642 Philip Yeoman Ward (Vital Sign Monitor)
£ 1,574 10 Carbon Monoxide Monitors (Smoking Check)
£ 2,226 Helena Day Room (Chairs)
£ 5,878 Nuclear Medicine (Patients Comfortable Room)
£ 34,048 Patient Advice & Liason Office, Main Entrance
£ 1,134 Hydrotherapy Pool
£ 4,360 Victoria Ward Annex (Various Items)
£ 1,982 Alex and Mary Maternity Wards (Carpets, Curtains, Sofa)
£ 5,553 PACU (Two sets of curtains)
£ 1,889 Robin Smith (Blood Pressure Equipment)
£ 5,734 12 Wheelchairs
£ 53,394 Trauma Wards (ECG Machine, Bladder Scanner, 4 Dynamap machines, 4 Cardiac Monitors, 30 Stacking Chairs, 30 End of Bed document Holders)
£ 200 Children’s Ward (Craft Equipment)
£ 900 Children’s Ward (Refurbish Teenage Chillout Room)
£ 500 Various Gardens and Courtyards (Plants, compost, etc.)
£ 5,287 Radiology C.T. Dept. (3 Visual Therapy Panels)
£ 240 Chest Pain Unit (2 CD Players and CDs)
£ 400 PACU Theatre Recovery Room (Curtain tracks)
£ 3,055 Parry Ward (Dinamap Monitor)
£ 1,497 Colorectal Nurses (Counselling/Rest Room for patients)
£ 295 Princess Anne Wing, PACU (Curtain tracks for operating theatre
£ 548 Children’s Ward (Video and camera equipment)
£ 750 Emergency Dept, Children’s Area (Clearing & planting garden)