Page 54 • The HERALD • 26th January 2023 v SEND ALL YOUR NEWS TO THE HERALD v ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ Innovators in Metal Quality Iron Works Guaranteed. Small and large jobs undertaken, from gates and railings to weathervanes & curtain poles. Call Nathan on 07500 016546 customerservices@phoenixironworks.co.uk www.phoenixironworks.co.uk Unit B, Brokenford Business Centre, Brokenford Lane, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9LZ Healthy Haven Beautiful Borders e BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair returns to Beaulieu from 28th to 30th April. e Healthy Haven Garden team from the Waterside Medical practice are taking part in the “Beautiful Borders” competition. ey would love to see you, so go along and support them. To book tickets please visit: www.beaulieu.co.uk/events/bbc-gardeners-worldfair-spring Gloria Hunniford Launches ‘Cuppa for Cancer Care’ Campaign to Promote Local Cancer Treatment Gloria Hunniford is heading up a campaign to promote the delivery of localised NHS cancer treatment with the use of mobile cancer care units. Gloria lost her daughter, Caron Keating, to breast cancer in 2004 and is a patron of charity Hope for Tomorrow, which provides the NHS with mobile cancer care units. e charity is launching its ‘Cuppa for Cancer Care’ initiative to coincide with World Cancer Day as an annual event to help fund the service which improves the life of cancer patients across the country. Gloria said: “Cancer can take a terrible toll on individuals and their families. Travelling for repeated treatment is often difficult, stressful and time-consuming, for so many people. The mobile cancer care units and specialist NHS nurses drive out to patients’ communities rather than them having to travel to hospital. This makes a difficult time that much easier for them.” Cuppa for Cancer Care takes place from 30th January to 5th February, around World Cancer Day, which is on 4th February. e charity wants people from across the country to get together for tea, co ee and cake in aid of supporting mobile cancer care. Gloria continued: “Patients regularly comment on how great the nurses and drivers are, with the team immediately making them comfortable and offering them a cup of tea or coffee. That’s where the idea of Cuppa for Cancer Care came from, and we hope that people across the country will get together for this wonderful cause. The mobile units are a fabulous asset in their communities.” Inside, the units are just like hospital treatment rooms, with four treatment chairs, chemotherapy pump stands, and medical storage facilities. ey are equipped with air conditioning and a cooling and heating system for patient comfort, as well as a toilet and kitchen. One NHS trust is currently trialling a unit with separate consultation rooms that extend hydraulically from the unit. Eleven NHS trusts currently have mobile cancer care units and last year they provided over 26,000 treatments. Hope for Tomorrow’s latest patient feedback shows that, on average, for each treatment, patients save two-and-a-half hours, 20 travel miles, and £6 on parking. With treatment lasting several months and sometimes years, the time and nancial savings can be considerable. Seventy-one percent of patients said they can tolerate their treatment more easily on a mobile cancer care unit, while 47% felt that they were more likely to complete their full course of treatment. Tina Seymour, Hope for Tomorrow chief executive said: “The mobile units allow cancer patients to have their treatment in a much more convenient way, taking away the disruption that long journeys can bring. They tell us that it makes a huge difference to them and they love the friendly atmosphere provided by the NHS staff and drivers. It costs £212 a day to keep a mobile cancer care unit on the road so fundraising is vital to keep the service going.” Hope for Tomorrow was founded by Christine Mills MBE in December 2003. Christine had a very personal reason for wanting to establish mobile cancer care; her husband David su ered from cancer. e couple had to endure the stress and pain of regular 60-mile journeys to the oncology centre for his treatment. Christine also sadly died from cancer in September 2018. Anyone interested in hosting an event, however big or small, should visit: www.hopefortomorrow.org.uk/ cuppa to sign up for a free fundraising pack. Cuppa for Cancer Care is sponsored by Janes Pantry. Gloria Hunniford More than 6,800 people in the UK are spending the start of 2023 waiting for an organ transplant – and over 220 of these patients are children. These mums, dads, wives, husbands, partners, daughters, sons can only be saved by someone giving them the greatest gift, the gift of life. At a time of resolutions to do good, let people know you want to save lives. Signing up to be an organ donor is quick and easy and makes it easier for families if they know what you want. Give hope to the thousands of people and hundreds of children on the transplant waiting list. A Letter from the Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Join the NHS Organ Donor Register at: www. organdonation.nhs.uk. Please tell your family about your decision so that they know what you want. Yours sincerely Anthony Clarkson Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation NHS Blood and Transplant Join the NHS Organ Donor Register Romsey Country Markets will take place on Friday 24th February in the Town Hall from 10.30am to 12.30pm, on Saturday 25th February at Braish eld Village Hall (SO51 0PN) from9.30am to 12.30pm and on Saturdays 4th and 25th March in the Cornmarket from 8.30am to 3pm. ey love to cook, cra and grow just for you, so go along for a great range of home produced items such as seasonal fruit, vegetables, cakes, preserves, plant and cra s. Please check the Facebook page: www.facebook. com/romseycountrymarket or visit: www. hampshirecountrymarkets.co.uk ROMSEY COUNTRY MARKET
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