Donated money is spent on new equipment, facilities to make treatment more comfortable for both patients and carers and research into methods of managing and monitoring leukaemia and related blood diseases carried out at the hospital.
Newsletter -April 2006
In this section:
- The Haematology Centre receive Beds and Graseby Pumps from ELF
- Graseby Pumps
The Haematology Centre receive Beds and Graseby Pumps from ELF
Exeter Leukaemia Fund has spent almost £4 million supporting the Haematology Centre at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital since it came into being in 1987. All ten isolation rooms at the Centre are being provided with Electric Beds.
Colette Hale, Unit Manager said “Having electric beds will make a huge difference to our patients’ experience. It will promote their independence, as they will be able, for example, to sit themselves up in bed where they were unable to do so previously without a nurse’s assistance. It will benefit nurses as it will reduce the amount of manual handling that is necessary, helping to avoid back injury. The beds also offer more flexibility for patients, so that they find their most comfortable position to lie in, and nurses can position patients in the optimum way for their intervention”. Pictured Denise Godbeer, Lydia Sturgess-Durden and Colette Hale, Unit Manager
Graseby Pumps
Graseby Pumps Commenting on the pumps, Colette Hale said “ These Graseby Pumps really have made a huge difference us. Having a pump for just about every patient means that we are able to run a much more efficient service. Infusions run to time, meaning the patients attending the daycare unit are able to get home on time, which of course is incredibly important to them. On the inpatient ward, it means that the sicker patients who require multiple therapies can also receive them in a timely and safe manner".
Pictured with some of the ten Graseby Pumps are Colette Hale, Unit Manager, Dr Miles Joyner and Denise Godbeer.
Some of these Graseby Pumps have been purchased through money raised in memory of loved ones, two from Ray Jones and Godfrey Paul Hortop.
A Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter machine is currently being sought and more recliner chairs all funded by ELF.