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The Consortium supports charities chosen by staff
The Consortium supports charities chosen by staff
William Booth, Senior Nurse at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, with some of the life support equipment The Consortium’s donation will help to fund.
April 2011
Staff at The Consortium were recently asked to decide which charity should receive a donation of £2,260.
The company wanted to give the donation, which was a combination of funds raised by staff through their Christmas raffle and a ‘New Year’ gift from the company, to a charity with a personal connection to their staff and asked them for nominations.
After all the nominations were received, two charities stood out as having provided invaluable support to staff and their families, and so were chosen to share the donation: The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) is a registered charity raising awareness of undetected cardiac abnormalities in young, apparently healthy individuals and supporting families who have lost loved ones to Sudden Death Syndrome, SADS, SCD or SUDS. They also work with the sports and medical community throughout the UK to establish good practice and screening facilities devoted to significantly reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death.
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children is the lead centre for paediatric intensive care in the South West of England. The unit is one of the largest in the country with 18 beds, caring for new born babies to adolescents following heart surgery and with a variety of other conditions from breathing problems to meningitis and children following accidents. They also provide a retrieval service where a group of specially trained nurses and doctors are able to collect critically ill babies and children from hospitals across the region and bring them safely back to Bristol for specialist treatment. On average they transport 24 critically ill infants and children each month. The donation from The Consortium will be used towards the purchase of a new Portable Life Support Machine (infant ventilator), which will be used by the intensive care retrieval team to transport critically ill infants and children from local hospitals back to Bristol for specialist treatment.
William Booth, Senior Nurse at the unit, expressed his thanks for the donation and commented 'your generosity will not only benefit critically ill children from Bristol and the immediate surrounding area but from throughout the South West and beyond who come to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children for specialist treatment'.