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Registered Charity No. 275931 2015
Registered Charity No. 275931
2015
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FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL HAMPSHIRECOUNTY HOSPITAL WINCHESTER
Registered Charity No. 275931
Royal Hampshire County Hospital Tel: 01962 824783Romsey RoadWinchesterSO22 5DG
Chairman Treasurer SecretaryMr G Cox Mr P Piper Mrs E Colley
In addition to the Chairman and Treasurer, other Management CommitteeMembers who are Trustees of the Friends are: Mr E Caldwell,Mr R Chisnell, Mr A Clarke, Mr J Colley, Mrs P Haddock, Mrs M Hoare,Mrs M Meredith (resigned October 14), Mrs H Morgan, Mrs T Spiers andMiss E Wicks.
Once a month we have a Management Committee meeting and, on aquarterly basis, we have a Representatives’ Meeting, which is made up ofthe Management Committee plus eight Representatives.
Our Representatives come from various local organisations such as U3A,Women’s Institutes, the Inner Wheel Club of Winchester, the Soroptimists,Rotary, Winchester Floral Design, Winchester Hospital Radio, theWinchester Association of Women Graduates and local business. Eachrepresentative keeps his or her particular organisation informed of ourwork, thereby encouraging its members to support the hospital.
At these quarterly meetings we normally either have a speaker or may visita particular Ward in the hospital to formally present a piece of equipment.If you happen to belong to an organisation and would like to join ourcommittee please do not hesitate to contact us for further details.
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CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS 2015
I am delighted to be writing for our booklet againat the beginning of another year. You will find in it,reports of what the Friends of the hospital havebeen doing in recent months and I do hope thatyou will find its content of interest. We do notpromote the Friends as such and therefore thisbooklet gives us the opportunity to tell ourMembers and the general public what the Friendsare all about. We do send this to our manycontacts and also make it available at all of ourfundraising events.
This year sees the 60th Anniversary since theLeague was formed on the 25th of February 1955 and we will be havingtwo significant events to mark this occasion. At the time of writing, plansare still being worked upon but the full details will be available on our web-site in due course so make sure that you look for the information. It is reallyquite a remarkable achievement and I feel that we can be justly very proudof all that we have been able to do. We should be very grateful to thoseindividuals who had the foresight to recognise that there was a need andto establish the League all those years ago.
The aims of the Friends have not really changed since those early daysand we still provide the finance to relieve patients who are sick,convalescent, disabled, handicapped or in need of assistance. We alsosupport the hospital by helping to improve conditions for both patients andstaff with the provision of amenities and equipment.
It is always pleasing to report that the Friends have had another busy andactive year and our Treasurer has set out in detail the financial aspects ofthe Friends’s work. We never know when donations and bequests willcome our way but when they do, you can rest assured that we will alwaysbe able to find a ward or department in the hospital needing a piece ofequipment or other areas which would benefit from our help.
We continually need to find interesting ways of raising funds and you willfind elsewhere in this booklet, details of the ones that have taken place thisyear. We shall arrange for further events during the next twelve months anddetails of these will be posted on our web-site.
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As most of you will probably know, the Friends have a ManagementCommittee which meets almost every month and within that Committee,we have a number of Trustees. I would like to place on record, myparticular thanks to all members of this Committee who have given muchsupport over the past twelve months. Our very hard working secretary, LizColley, and our Treasurer, Patrick Piper, have both made a tremendouscontribution to the work of the Friends. This is done behind the scenes andgoes largely unnoticed and we owe them a great deal. In addition to thisCommittee, we also have our Representatives Committee which meetsfour times a year and this is purely to keep them in touch with what theFriends have been doing. Those of you who visit the Nightingale Wing, willpass our Sales Desk and this is valiantly staffed by Helen Morgan, EricCaldwell and Penny Williams and we are very grateful to them inencouraging all those that pass by to purchase goods which in turn willhelp the Hospital.
Geoff Cox – Chairman
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Kind Generous DonationsMy Husband and I every month walk all the corridors and wards to emptyThe Friends of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital Donation Boxespositioned around the hospital. It takes an hour and a half approximatelybut well worthwhile thanks to the generosity of patients and visitors alike.
A list of goods bought can be seen Listed on the walls near the boxes.
The proceeds are counted and banked to join other gifts of money sentstraight to the office and fund raising events held by our volunteers overthe year.
Recently we had a heart warming moment when entering the roomprovided for relatives and friends who were being treated in The IntensiveCare Unit. Sadly it was full of people and after we apologised for theintrusion to empty the box in there we turned to leave and were greetedwith people lining up to donate and thanking us for the support we give.A real heart warming moment and it made our day. So keep giving even ifit is just your loose change every little helps as they say.
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The late Barbara Selby
We were all saddened to learn of the passing of Barbara Selby in June2014.
In tribute to Barbara, Honorary Archivist at the RHCH for many years, weare reprinting an interesting article that she produced from the hospitalarchives for our Booklet in 2004.
The First County Hospital in Winchester
The Royal Hampshire County Hospital that we know is the third CountyHospital in Winchester. The first hospital was a pioneer foundation,founded by Alured Clarke, Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, in 1736.There had been several foundations in Winchester where the poor, sickand old might hope to find some nursing care, which is not surprisingconsidering that Winchester had been a centre of Christendom since theconversion of the Saxons in 634 AD. In the reign of King Alfred the hospitaldedicated to St. John the Baptist was founded. In 1132 the hospital of StCross, in what was then the village of Sparkford, was instituted, and a leperhospital, Juxta Winton, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen on Morn Hill wasestablished around 1155. In addition to this, the three monasticestablishments, the Priory of St Swithun, (the Cathedral), St Mary’s Abbey,(the Nunnaminster), and St Grimbald’s Abbey, (Hyde Abbey), all had theirown infirmaries for the poor and needy as well as for themselves and theirfamilies. However, over the years these establishments came to be morelike almshouses than true hospitals.
In the 14th century, plague epidemics left whole village communities at themercy of the parishes with the loss of the caring institutions at thedissolution of the monasteries. By the 18th century, there was less plaguebut more smallpox and venereal diseases. Mills, foundries and mines drewlabour away from the land and as these industries developed, the povertyand misery they created through overcrowding, caused appalling workingconditions and malnutrition leading to greater spread of disease.Furthermore, polluted water and contaminated food caused enteric fever.
There were no hospitals in the modern sense; institutional medicine didnot exist. There was no point in filling wards with sick people if nothingcould be done to help them. Hospitals were more like hostels for peoplewho were segregated by type, – the mad, old widows, the soldiers and the
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young orphans. The mad andthose potentially contagious weresent to leper hospitals, or pesthouses as they were known.
Most of the locals thought thatWinchester needed a workhouse,but not Canon Clarke. He knew ofthe extremes of wealth andpoverty and the complete lack ofinstitutional medical care.Winchester was then a small market town with a population of about 6,000,described as “an ancient rotten borough courted for its politicalusefulness, made up of a row of lordly town houses and a cohort oftradesmen”. The water supply and sewage system had been ineffective forcenturies. The Brooks area was an open sewer, worsened by the RivenItchen flooding. Things were so awful that the infant mortality at this timewas around 75%.
Clarke campaigned tirelessly for the foundation of a hospital. He devisedan innovative scheme of reducing the poor rates of the parish therebyremoving their heaviest expense – the care of the needy. He successfullypersuaded donors of the value to themselves of subscribing, knowing thatin the past monies had been misplaced. He stressed the advantages ofcentralisation of resources and of convenience of physicians andapothecaries working in one place.
Those who were eager to donate were satisfied and others were temptedby the prestige they would gain, as subscribers were given the right tonominate people for admission, not just from the city but from the wholecounty. Clarke, also pointed out that subscribers could be separated fromtheir sick servants! Clarke’s scheme went ahead and subscribers becamegovernors and elected a committee under Clarke’s chairmanship. Theinitial proposal appeared in May 1736. By August, just three months later,all but £600 had been contributed. By October 18th, St. Luke’s Day, thefirst patient was admitted to the first voluntary hospital outside London –the County Hospital in Winchester. This foundation based not on wishy-washy altruistic whims but on the need for care and economic necessity,became an example in the provinces for forty more such hospitals andearned the County Hospital the name of Pioneer Hospital.
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The Governors agreed to lease a house in Colebrook Street, on the site ofthe car park on the corner of Colebrook Street and Paternoster Row, whichhad belonged to a solicitor called Richard Pescod. They paid £4 for thefirst year and insured it and all its contents for £500. They appointed amatron, Mrs Abigail Aston, who was to be paid £10 a year, and anapothecary, Mr Pratt, who was paid £20 a year including payment for hisservices as secretary to the Governors. He served the Hospital for 32 yearsbut Mrs Aston was sent back to Westminster after just two months! Therewere two physicians and two surgeons who worked “without fee orreward”, three nurses who had £6 a year, and servants who had £5.
There were 50 beds which increased over ten years to 60. The first patientwas 17 year old Mary Sellers who had had a sore leg for nine months.Patients were admitted on the recommendation of a subscriber or on thegrounds of emergency. There were two, later three, outpatient clinics,which patients from outlying villages were coaxed into staying withpayment of 2s. a week from their parish and 1s. from the Hospital.
There were strict guidelines on admissions. No beggars, pregnant women,people dying, those with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, scabiesand venereal diseases, or those described as “disordered in their senses”.Two months was the limit of admission and patients were expected toproduce surety for their burial! Those with smallpox were cared for in ahouse in Eastgate Street and later in the home of Mr & Mrs Golding inStaple Gardens.
The rules and regulations for staff and patients were very restrictive.Matron had the keys and locked up at different times depending on theseason. She had to read the rules to patients and staff every Thursdaymorning, and after a patient escaped over the wall she had to have a rollcall each morning. Patients were forbidden to swear, drink alcohol or playdice and members of the opposite sex were not to visit each other’s wardsor to walk on the gravel paths of the Cathedral Close. If patients were fitenough, they were expected to help with laundry, cleaning, daily prayersand were allowed to attend the funerals of other patients. Failure to complywith these rules meant instant expulsion with no further chance ofreadmission. Outpatients had to conform too. Failure to keep anappointment meant discharge and failure to return empty bottles meant norepeat medicines. If the parish was not helped with transport costs thehospital gave 1s. to patients living more than 10 miles from Winchester.
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In the first year 373 patients were treated, 10 died, and the books balancednicely – £1,015 received and £1,015 spent. Tradesmen had to attend onthe first Wednesday in the month to be paid and if they failed to turn upthey had to wait a month! The Treasurer was empowered to pay bills forcandles, bread, wooden legs and burial for the dead. As there were norestrictions imposed by the Human Anatomy Act at this time, the surgeonsin the interest of scientific knowledge used unclaimed dead bodies.
By about 1750 it was clear that with the expansion of work in the hospitala new larger building was needed, and so shortly after this plans weremade for the building of the second County Hospital in Winchester.
Barbara Selby Honorary Archivist
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Dear Members and Friends
60 years in existence for a Charity is worthcelebrating in style and that is what the Friends ofthe Royal Hampshire County Hospital Winchesterwill be doing next year. A “Diamond Jubilee”anniversary of any kind is a great milestone toachieve and we will all be very privileged to bepart of the celebrations.
It has been a pleasure for me personally to beinvolved for more than half of that time working ina secretarial capacity alongside variousTreasurers and Chairmen. Progressing from usingan ancient manual typewriter to a ‘state of the art’computer has been quite a challenge in itself butI certainly wouldn’t want to turn the clock back in that respect!
Fundraising in the ‘old days’ for curtains, chairs and televisions tosophisticated and much needed pieces of equipment these days isanother challenge in itself. With that being the case, and it always will be,the Friends of the Hospital will continue to strive with your generous helpto achieve the maximum support possible for our hospital in years tocome. Without you all, we simply wouldn’t exist!
We would be delighted to meet many of our members at the 60th GalaDinner which we hope to be holding in the Guildhall in Winchester inSeptember/October 2015. Do keep an eye on our website for details.
Please show our booklet to your friends – we are actively looking for moremembers!
With very best wishes to you all and please do not hesitate to contact us ifyou would like further information.
Elizabeth Colley SecretaryFriends of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital WinchesterRoyal Hampshire County HospitalRomsey RoadWinchester SO22 5DGTel: 01962 824783Email: [email protected]@btck.co.uk
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Would you like to help the hospitals?
The Aims of the Friends of theRoyal Hampshire County Hospital
These are to help to relieve patients at the RoyalHampshire County Hospital and in the community who aresick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped or in need ofassistance.
Additionally we support the hospital by helping to improveconditions for both patients and staff with provision ofamenities and equipment.
You can help by:
• Becoming a Member of the Friends
• Sending a donation.
• Supporting our efforts to increase our membership.
• Making the Friends a beneficiary under your will.
• Encouraging friends and relatives to make donationsto the Friends in lieu of flowers at funerals.
• Use ‘mydonate’ link on our website:winchesterlof.btck.co.uk
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The Friends of the Royal Hampshire County Hospitals– Registered Charity No 275931.
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DEMENTIA CARE
Rachel Hayden, a Dementia Specialist Nurse in theTrust, spoke at the Representatives’ committeemeeting on Tuesday 15th April 2014. She began bythanking the League for the donations, which hadenabled them to buy important equipment to help inthe care of patients with dementia.
Special clocks were on order which clearly show theday and date. Research has shown that such clockshelp to reduce disorientation among patients andother wards were following suit and ordering them.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lamps had also been purchased whichare used with a patient for one or two hours a day, which give the effect ofreal sunlight and also help to reduce disorientation.
Dementia patients often forget to eat and sufferfrom poor appetites. A “smell” alarm is a device,like an air freshener, which is used to give off thesmell of food an hour before a meal. Threearomas are available, curry, bakewell tart andorange, and the hospital dieticians are nowassessing the best way to employ the device.
The Trust currently has over 100 patients withdementia in their care, some for medical
conditions but others are social admissions to provide necessary relief forthe patient carers. An important part of their work was to prepare thepatients and their carers for their return home. The Trust has a policy ofonly using sedatives when absolutely necessary and only twice had theybeen used in extreme cases in the last four months.
Reminiscence therapy is an important factor inpatient treatment, with music being an importantingredient and they encouraged Hospital Radioto be played in the wards. Talking to patientsabout their past life helped to keep incidents ofaggression down and a new policy was beinglooked at this year that disoriented patients should not be moved, as it hasbeen shown that moving them typically increases their hospital stay by aday as they were likely to suffer from a fall.
The Trust works closely with the Princess Royal Trust of Carers and theAlzheimers Society and would be promoting their co-operation duringDementia Awareness Week on the 19th May 2014, where stands would beset up across the Trust and a tea party would be held for the dementiavolunteers, who now numbered 28 with 10 in training.
Mr Geoff Cox thanked Mrs Hayden on behalf of the League andencouraged her to submit further bids, if there was other equipment thatshe thought would be helpful in carrying out her work.
John Colley
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IN PRAISE OF THE RHCH –WINCHESTER’S PRIDE AND JEWEL
Living, as I have, most of my life in Winchester, with two family generationsbefore me and two more following, one can perhaps be forgiven for takingthe “Hospital on the Hill” somewhat for granted, perhaps similarly theCathedral, Winchester College and old King Alfred’s statue in theBroadway – all significant landmarks in our midst!
Frequent passes by in the car or occasional visits to see sick relatives orfriends, hardly allows one to understand what actually goes on within theconfines of the extensive footprint of the Hospital, albeit a decreasingfootprint in recent years. While so many local residents require in-patienttreatment at some stage in their lives, I count myself lucky that I hadpassed the three score years and ten benchmark before I spent a fewnights “inside”! The experience was an eye opener for me and made merealise what a special place our RHCH is and what special people staff it.
Admittedly, my operation for a new hip was termed “elective” surgery but,never having gone through the Hospital front door with my own overnightbag before, I must confess to being a little apprehensive. I had alreadybeen reassured however, before my admission, through attendance at thepre-assessment clinics where everything was clearly explained to me andmy wife and any questions fully answered.
I felt at home in the St Cross Ward, living just down the hill in St Cross and,on returning to the Ward, after my operation, I had a subliminal momentwhen, rising above the mass of tree foliage seen from the Ward window, Ispotted the Tower of St Cross Church, in total isolation, with all otherhouses and buildings hidden from view. I knew I was close to home!
Looking back, three months after my operation, I still marvel at the skill ofall the nursing and support staff, working tirelessly and often under severepressure.
Each and every member of staff played, as they do daily, a key part inlooking after me. The skill of the Surgeon and the Theatre team, the tenderkindness of the Ward Nurses, Junior Doctors and the many other supportstaff who clean, transport and make tea (regularly!) and who none of thepatients could do without. I mustn’t forget the OT experts and physio’swho get you up and mobile very quickly and who don’t take “I can’t” foran answer!
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I found the food entirely acceptable with a good selection of alternativeson the menu for each meal.
My memories will last forever, particularly the gentle kindness andconfidence of a long serving Ward Sister and the Senior Nurse who spentmost of his Birthday getting me “going” again and stayed until I was morecomfortable. What a way to spend your Birthday!
The night team had a well oiled pattern of work and never questioned theneed for yet another urine bottle in the early hours.
I was relieved to know that the League of Friends had financed a BladderScanner (see picture – the promised L of F unit had not yet arrived!) for StCross Ward, since I needed a number of scans whilst in residence and,each time, one of the Staff had to go and borrow one from another Ward,even A & E! I wished I had with me a magic wand to be able to give theWard all the items of equipment they needed to make their jobs easier.
I found myself thanking the Hospital Friends for the many hundreds ofitems of life sustaining hospital equipment provided for the RHCH over thelast 59 years, since its founding here in Winchester in 1955. The RHCHLeague of Friends celebrates its Diamond Jubilee Anniversary in 2015and, what better way to honour such a distinguished length of communityservice, than by persuading many more Hospital patients as well as localresidents to become members of the Friends and, in so doing, ensure thatthe valuable work of the League is able to carry on for years to come.
Although our minimum membership subscription is £5 per year, avoluntary contribution of £1 a week equates to £52 per year. £1 a week isunder 15p per day and this help, added to the contributions from everyother member, could make a real difference in sustaining the Hospital’spatient support needs. The NHS just cannot afford every new piece of kit.We all have a community duty to help provide for maximum comfort andeffective patient recovery. I reckon my short five night stay as an in-patientmust easily have cost the NHS £10,000 and probably a lot more, when theone-to-one staff costs are included. We all expect a five star NHS servicebut we all need to support the work of our outstanding Hospital staff bybeing ready to contribute a relatively small amount each week to make lifebetter for all who work or are treated within. You never know if or when youmight need a Bladder Scanner or some other important piece of lifepreserving equipment which could make you better, sooner.
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I now blow a secret kiss to the Winchester Jewel that is the RHCH everytime I pass by and say a quiet thank you to all the community Angels whowork there.
Richard Chisnell
See picture below
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NIGHTINGALE DESK
Sales on the Nightingale Desk are continuing to improve due to theincreased footfall to the Burrell Wing. Thanks are due to all staff andpatients alike who stop and look to see what ‘goodies’ we have on offer.
We have some new designs of the ‘Ulster Weavers’ tea towels which wealways sell at a bargain price – undercutting the retailers. The uniqueembroidery, sewn by the Embroiderers Guild, which hangs in the entranceto the Butterfield Building is on sale in the form of a card – useful for anyoccasion when a card is appropriate. Paperback books and various qualitybric-a-brac is also on sale.
Do stop and say ‘hello’ to either Eric Caldwell, Helen Morgan or PennyWilliams who frequent the desk in support of the Hospital. It really doesmake a difference.
A very big thank you to Eric, Helen and Penny for their efforts!
THAT’S THE WAY TO CANNULATE!
Many patients visiting Hospital require tobe fitted with a cannula on arrival, tofacilitate the intravenous injection of drugsor fluids and/or the easy removal of bloodsamples.
The RHCH Friends awarded a grantduring the last year for the purchase of sixVenipuncture Training Arms for use in theRHCH Education Centre and these arebeing used, on a daily basis, to train largenumbers of healthcare staff who might becalled upon to “cannulate” a patient in aWard environment.
Members of the Friends ManagementCommittee were invited to visit a trainingsession and witness the lifelike nature ofthe model arms, including the drawing of“fake” blood, all designed to give confidence to staff and patients, when a“live” cannulation is required, often urgently and under some stress forboth parties.
Another fine example of support provided with monies donated by theFriends, making a real difference to our day to day Hospital treatmentprocedures.
The Friends were entertained and given a mostinteresting tour of the Training rooms of theEducation Centre by Fiona Stones, Facilitiesand Business Manager and Karen Bishop,Project Support Officer.
Our Chairman, Geoffrey Cox togetherwith Helen O’Horan, Vascular Access
Specialist Nurse
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RECITAL!HAMPSHIRE HUB SCHOLARS
Friends and family enjoyed once again a concert ofhigh quality entertainment performed by thescholars of the Hampshire Music Service onNovember 7th at Littleton Millennium Hall inWinchester.
The programme, organised by Helen Walton,Assistant Head, consisted of items by Bach,Mozart, Vivaldi plus one or two lesser knowncomposers. The Friends were treated to musicplayed on the oboe, bassoon, flute, violin, trumpet,marimba, harp, alto sax together with a singer.Variety was in no small measure and thoroughlyenjoyed by all present.
Thanks were due to Helen and her Scholars foranother wonderful performance in aid of theFriends of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.
ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL
I’m sure by now most of you have seen or maybe visited the RoyalHampshire County Hospital since it had it’s frontage redesigned, and Ihope you agree with us – what an improvement! We can now appreciatewhy it’s a grade II listed building. As the shrubs and trees grow it will beeven more attractive.
Here below is a comparison of how it looks now compared with how itlooked in about 1868.
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PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE FRIENDS OF THEROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL
The last Chairman, Mrs Trish Spiers, of the Friends of the Royal HampshireCounty Hospital was the proud recipient of a most deserved British EmpireMedal in the Honours List 2014.
Her award was for services and fund raising for the community ofWinchester which of course included her services and hard work raisingmoney for the “Friends” of the Hospital. Fortunately Trish is still serving onthe Management Committee of the Friends and continues to help raisemuch needed money for the hospital.
Dame Mary Fagan, DCVO, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (at the time of thepresentation)
THANK YOU!I wanted to say a big thank you for your support during my MSc (Theleague sponsored me for my academic year 2010- 2011). I am delightedto say that UCL awarded me a distinction in Advanced CardiorespiratoryPhysiotherapy.Many thanksRuth WintertonAcute Team Lead RHCH
Thank you so much for the generosity that you all have shown us, it cannotbe easy to make such decisions. This new Axiss II Machine will benefit ourstaff and patients enormously, as our old machine was really on its lastlegs. We will no longer have to worry if the old machine would work on theday and it is so quick and precise our patients won’t even realize we aredoing anything with their eyes. It’s just fantastic. A great big THANK YOU.Anita Sivier (Sister) and StaffWainwright Ward, EYES
On behalf of Hampshire Hospitals Maternity Services I would like to thankthe League of Friends for the generous financial support you haveprovided to purchase two luxury reclining chairs. These chairs will be usedto enhance the facilities on Geoffrey Hammond ward and provide acomfortable resting place for partners who wish to remain overnight on theward area as support to both mum and baby. We will continue to promotesupport for the Friends by informing our users of your kind donation andensuring your information board remains as a visual display in a prominentarea of the ward.Lorna Sugden, Maternity Operational Manager
We are really pleased that the application for financial support to assist inthe purchase of a Bladder Scanner has been approved. Please relay StCross Wards’ appreciation to the Chairman Geoff Cox and the Committeefor their consideration.Rob Spencer-Fleet, Charge Nurse St Cross Ward
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Thank you so much for approving the purchase of the MotoMedTherapeutic Exercise Unit for the Critical Care Unit at the RHCH. The staffin ICU have worked hard to identify the most useful and effective mannerto improve the rehabilitation of patients recovering from critical illness andit was unanimously agreed that this system was the one most likely to beeffective. All of us within Critical Care are well aware of the financialconstraints faced by the Trust as well as the Friends, and we areparticularly grateful for your support at this time.Dr Stephen Wimbush, Consultant in Aneisthesia & IC Medicine
Thank you so much for agreeing to purchase our Re- Turn 7500 sit tostand transfer aid. This piece of equipment will really benefit our patientsand assist us getting our more dependent patients on their feet followingtheir stroke.Hannah Gilbert-Ashur, Ward Manager, Twyford Ward
A big thank you on behalf of the Ophthalmic Department for funding the‘icare pro tonometer’. This small piece of equipment is going to have ahugh impact on our clinics and has revolutionized the checking of eyepressures in children in eye units around the UK over the past few years.Luke Clifford, Consultant Ophthalmologist
A ‘thank you’ letter from a grateful husband whose wife was cared for priorto her death.
“My wife was taken to Winchester Hospital and subsequently TwyfordWard following a stroke in March. The ward staff were wonderful; theymade such a painful experience a little easier to bear with their kindnessto our family and the care and compassion they gave to my wife. Theymade it possible for us to stay by her side all the time by making bedsavailable when possible and the use of the family room. We do hope insome small way our donation will go towards saying thank you toeveryone who helped my wife and her family and that future families mayalso benefit.”
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Following the business of the Annual General Meeting, Mr Geoffrey Cox,Chairman, welcomed and introduced Mr Dick Rainsbury, ConsultantBreast Surgeon, Hampshire Hospitals Trust.
Mr Rainsbury gave an extremely informative talk and slide show outliningwhat is new in Breast cancer treatment. Several technological pieces ofequipment were mentioned in particular the ‘one stop’ sentinel nodeanalysis (at a cost of £35,000) and of which there are thirty five units in thecountry. Mr Rainsbury pioneered this work. Referring to breast conservingreconstruction he highlighted that a mastectomy could be avoided byvolume replacement and a BodyJet lipomodelling machine at a cost of£28,000 was half funded by the Friends of the Hospital. Over the pastfifteen years – 346 patients have been treated by these techniquesavoiding mastectomy.
The content of Mr Rainsbury’s talk and slide show was both thoughtprovoking and illuminating. It is not hard to appreciate why Winchester isregarded as one of the top Breast Units in the country.
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SOME GRANTS AGREED IN 2014Our Chairman and Treasurer continue to meet with Mrs Donna Green,Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Executive, HampshireHospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on a yearly basis to discuss bids putforward by Consultants, Doctors, Nurses or the Community. These areprioritised and brought before the Management Committee at one of theirmonthly meetings. Listed below are some of the grants agreed by thecommittee during 2014:-
Ward/Department Equipment £
Medical Imaging 27” PC Monitor for waiting room 204.00ICU Moto Therapeutic Exercise Unit 9,427.00Therapy Services E-Link Upgrade 560.00Dementia Dept Wall Puzzles 843.70Dementia Nurse Dolls for therapy with patients 27.87Education Centre 6 x Venipuncture arms at £450 each 2,700.00Twyford Rubber quoits, limb equipment 372.00Maternity Maloy Recliner Chairs x 2 2,114.00St Cross Bladder Scanner 7,093.00Ophthalmology Quantel Medical Scanner 6,695.00Ophthalmology Icare Pro Tonometer 3,695.00Twyford Sit to stand transfer aid 549.99
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TREASURER’S REPORTWhilst it is pleasing to see some improvement inthe economy the simple fact is that the countryremains saddled with a huge burden of debt thecost of which impacts on funding available tothe public sector with the NHS being a majorelement. Our local Hospital Trust, like so manythroughout the country, struggles to ‘balancethe books’ having to take difficult decisions inthe allocation of its limited funding.
These are challenging times but with thegenerosity of our supporters the Friends of thehospital are able to provide invaluable help bydonating monies to cover the cost of newequipment etc. thus enhancing patient care andrecovery.
The extent to which we can help is, of course, totally dependent upon theFriends’ available resources and the generosity of its supporters. Ourincome comes from – subscriptions, donations, legacies, fund raisingactivities, our sales desk and limited investments. In addition there arecollecting boxes spread throughout the hospital – every penny counts asyou will see from my brief review of the Friends’ finances covering the 12months to 31st March 2014.
It is pleasing to report that in the year net income after costs totalledalmost £35.000 but that has to be viewed against thirty applications forfunding over four times that figure. After careful consideration we wereable to agree nine grants totalling £24.000 ranging from a few pounds to£8,000. Subsequently a further £34,000 has been committed to fund the2014 applications. Whilst the RHCH now forms part of the wider NorthHampshire Foundation Trust the Friends remains fully independent withour constitution clearly stating that its funding be applied in support of theWinchester hospital and ancillary services.
As a charity it is important that our finances remain transparent. Each yearthe accounts are independently examined and filed with the CharityCommission. All the Friends’ Trustees continue to provide their servicesfree of charge without charging expenses. As Treasurer I am most gratefulto our members and donors for their continued generosity without whichwe would be unable to continue our support of the hospital.
On a personal note it is appropriate that I record my thanks to ourChairman Geoff Cox, Secretary Liz Colley and my fellow Trustees.
Patrick J Piper – Honorary Treasurer – 17th November 2014
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