October Update NUH Staff
Welcome to your October update from Nottingham Hospitals Charity, especially for NUH staff. Read on to find out how we’re helping fund research into post-surgical infections, and how we’re supporting the Nottingham Breast Institute this Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Supporting care and research at the Nottingham Breast Institute
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re continuing to support treatment and research at the Nottingham Breast Institute. Thanks to our donors, we’re able to help provide the very best care for breast cancer patients here at NUH – throughout diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
Nottingham Rugby player supports Play in Healthcare Week
This Play in Healthcare Week (13 to 18 October), Nottingham Rugby player Jacob Wright is supporting our appeal to provide more play equipment and activities for young patients at Nottingham Children’s Hospital.
Jacob is passionate about the importance of play in hospital, after being treated on the children’s cancer ward himself as a child.
Read Jacob’s moving story and watch our video interview here
Helping fund research into post-surgical infections
Thanks to our supporters, we gave just over £4,000 for equipment to support the development of new diagnostic tests for post-surgical bacterial infection.
The study aims to help tackle the issue of antibiotic resistance, by developing quick and accurate tests to determine whether an infection is bacterial, and therefore whether antibiotics should be prescribed.
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