Friends of Brighton & Hove Hospitals

2008 Donations to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals total £34,500 to provide:

•Accident and Emergency – Convert a storage room into a quiet room

•Egremont/Catherine James Ward – Ten portable Compressor Nebulizers, 20 fans, electric bed

•Learning and Development Department – Dressing Trolley

•Digestive Diseases Ward – Highback patient chairs and visitors chairs

•Medical and Surgical Assessment Unit – Equipment for a quiet room

•Medical Photography Department – Video Equipment Package

•Peritoneal Dialysis Department – Music CDs

•Physiotherapy Department – Exercise Stimulator

•Trust Arts Advisory Committee – various art projects

2008 Donations to South Downs Health NHS Trust total £35,240 to provide:

•Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team – Equipment for diagnosis and treatment of Aphasia

•Children and Families Department – Four Otoscopes

•Community Nursing Team – Ten Doppler Probes and two Pulse Oximeters

•Integrated Community Equipment Service – Two new beds and chair for larger patients and Hoist Scales

•Falls Prevention Service – 24 hour ECG machine, Emergency Lifting Cushions and portable digital Oximeter

•Occupational Therapy Department – Wax bath, large heat pan and assessment kit

•Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Department – Portable DVD players with training DVDs

•Seaside View Child Development Centre – Camcorder and accessories

•Dental Services – Portable drills, small handpieces, portable scaler and teaching aids

•Speech and Language Therapy Centre, Shoreham – Talking Mat, Eye-com board, Printer and Scanner

•Sussex Rehabilitation Centre, Brighton – Wheelchair for larger patients, height-adjustable work bench

2007 Donations to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust total £21,893 to provide:

•Trevor Mann Baby Unit – Vapotherm 2000i Capital Feeding Kit

•Learning & Development – Training Equipment

•Dept of Respiratory Medicine – Support for the Breathe Easy group

•RACH – CD Player & Sensory CDs for children with sensory impairness

•Nutrition & Dietetics – Diabetes Real Meal Photographs – for patient training

•Maternity, Antenatal Clinic – “Fetus in Utero” life-size model

•Accident & Emergency – 2 x Non invasive Ventilation Machines

•Theatre Admissions Bay – DVD/TV for patients

•Egremont/Catherine James Ward – Portable Microlab Spirometer Machine

•Day Surgery Unit Level 5 – 5 x Patient Bedside Chairs

2007 Donations to South Downs Health NHS Trust total £17,005 to provide:

•Facilities/Integrated Community Equipment Service – 5 x High Dependency

  Quattro II pressure care overlay mattresses

•CRT Stroke Occupational Therapy – Cambridge Prospective Memory Test and Handgrip Dynamometer

•Community Beds Service – 4 x portable TV’s & headphones for B.G.H.

•Dental Services – Piezotronic Scaler, Portable Sunction Unit and Laptop Computer

•School Nurses – 30 x Occluding Glasses and 10 x Fixation Sticks

•Family Planning Clinic – Portable, Folding Wheelchair, Play items for children

•Specialist Services Rehabilitation – 2 x Greasby Syringe Drivers

•Specialist Services Physiotherapy – Golvo 7007ES Hoist etc.

•Speech Therapy – Digital Camcorder and 10 Story Sacks

•Intermediate Care – Table Top Freezer for patients at Craven Vale

•Community Nursing Service – 10 x Seca 761 Portable Weighing Scales

•Friends Café at Hove Polyclinic – Trolley

2007 Donations to the East Sussex Downs & Weald PCT total £3,585 to provide:

•Physiotherapy Outpatients, Newhaven Polyclinic – Laser Acupuncture Stimulator & E-Ace Pen and Sony Digital Voice Recorder

•Community Rehabilitation Team – Pulse Oximeter, Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor, Ankle Cuff Weights,

•Clinical Room, Newhaven Polyclinic – BioAir Style 60 Air Cleaner

•Speech & Language Therapy – 2 x Sound Level Decibel Meters

•Community Nurses, Havens Locality – Setting up a Continence Clinic

•Nursing Team, Havens Locality – 2 x Satellite Navigation Systems

•Havens Locality ‘Breathe Easy’ Group – Donation towards running costs