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THE world is at their feet – or alternatively in their hands – for Irvine Unit patients benefitting from rehabilitation care.
The Taj Mahal, Paris, Rome – patients using sophisticated new exercise machines funded by the League of Friends can select the choice of view before them onscreen as they pedal (or hand-propel) themselves to a level of fitness that will allow them to return to their homes.
Physiotherapy Unit staff were gathered to greet League representatives at a photo-call in the unit on Friday, March 13th to thank the League for two gifts.
Colourful bunting decorated the exercise area and tea, scones and cakes awaited the visitors. The large-screen television (a previous League gift which allows the unit to communicate rehabilitation exercises across the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust area) was displaying a “Thank you League of Friends” message.
League Chair Nigel Ray, Treasurer Chris Ashford and Trustee Graham Cox together with President and Secretary John Dowling learned how one group of patients had corporately pedalled the equivalent of the 100 kilometres between Bexhill and Paris in one venture.
Emma Quigley, Team Lead Physiotherapist for the unit’s award-winning Specialist Stroke Rehabilitation Team, escorted Chris Ashford to a wheelchair adjacent to the machine and showed him how to choose between foot or hand propulsion and how to opt from a world-wide choice of place settings and resistance levels.
The two Tor Theratrainers cost £25,990.
Then it was the League Chair’s turn to sample one of three highly specialised patient chairs. Together with another example for use in the shower, the chairs cost £9,986.
Julie-Ann Nuess, Service Manager, Intermediate Care, explained how the electrically-adjustable chairs with their infection-control surfaces, are allowing staff to assess patients’ needs before their discharge so that aids appropriate to home use can be provided.
The Taj Mahal, Paris, Rome – patients using sophisticated new exercise machines funded by the League of Friends can select the choice of view before them onscreen as they pedal (or hand-propel) themselves to a level of fitness that will allow them to return to their homes.
Physiotherapy Unit staff were gathered to greet League representatives at a photo-call in the unit on Friday, March 13th to thank the League for two gifts.
Colourful bunting decorated the exercise area and tea, scones and cakes awaited the visitors. The large-screen television (a previous League gift which allows the unit to communicate rehabilitation exercises across the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust area) was displaying a “Thank you League of Friends” message.
League Chair Nigel Ray, Treasurer Chris Ashford and Trustee Graham Cox together with President and Secretary John Dowling learned how one group of patients had corporately pedalled the equivalent of the 100 kilometres between Bexhill and Paris in one venture.
Emma Quigley, Team Lead Physiotherapist for the unit’s award-winning Specialist Stroke Rehabilitation Team, escorted Chris Ashford to a wheelchair adjacent to the machine and showed him how to choose between foot or hand propulsion and how to opt from a world-wide choice of place settings and resistance levels.
The two Tor Theratrainers cost £25,990.
Then it was the League Chair’s turn to sample one of three highly specialised patient chairs. Together with another example for use in the shower, the chairs cost £9,986.
Julie-Ann Nuess, Service Manager, Intermediate Care, explained how the electrically-adjustable chairs with their infection-control surfaces, are allowing staff to assess patients’ needs before their discharge so that aids appropriate to home use can be provided.
The world at their feet
League to spend nearly £ 100,000 on patient care
THE League of Friends of Bexhill Hospital is funding the £92,700 cost of purchasing a vital piece of sight-saving equipment.
The Cirrus OCT 6000 Optical Coherence Tomography scanner will increase the working capacity of the hospital’s Dowling Retinal Suite by 10%, possibly pushing it beyond 12,000 appointments year.
The League has consistently funded equipment for the unit since its inception. The unit’s principal role is in combatting age-related dry macular degeneration – the largest cause of sight loss in the western world.
Over the years, the League has purchased patient transport devices for the hospital’s Irvine Unit, which specialises in the care of the elderly, particularly in rehabilitation after strokes.
Meeting on Thursday, July 9th, the charity’s General Committee also approved the purchase of a £1,403 Lisclare Lotus XL – a similar device but capable of handling larger and heavier patients.
The meeting also approved the purchase of a £4,529 package of equipment for the Irvine Unit’s Occupational Therapy Stroke and Complex Rehabilitation team, bringing the evening’s spending to £98,632.
As part of a package of measures aimed at modernising the charity, the League of Friends is streamlining the name it has borne since its inception in 1952. In future its working title will be Bexhill Hospital Friends.
Other measures will include a new-look website.
The charity stands to benefit from a legacy left to East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for use at Bexhill Hospital. League committee members were given a presentation by Trust officers and commercial architects outlining plans for the modernisation and revitalisation of the hospital’s Outpatients Reception Area.
The scheme is aimed at providing a more welcoming atmosphere for patients and improved facilities for the Coffee Shop run by Bexhill Hospital Friends volunteers for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.
The Cirrus OCT 6000 Optical Coherence Tomography scanner will increase the working capacity of the hospital’s Dowling Retinal Suite by 10%, possibly pushing it beyond 12,000 appointments year.
The League has consistently funded equipment for the unit since its inception. The unit’s principal role is in combatting age-related dry macular degeneration – the largest cause of sight loss in the western world.
Over the years, the League has purchased patient transport devices for the hospital’s Irvine Unit, which specialises in the care of the elderly, particularly in rehabilitation after strokes.
Meeting on Thursday, July 9th, the charity’s General Committee also approved the purchase of a £1,403 Lisclare Lotus XL – a similar device but capable of handling larger and heavier patients.
The meeting also approved the purchase of a £4,529 package of equipment for the Irvine Unit’s Occupational Therapy Stroke and Complex Rehabilitation team, bringing the evening’s spending to £98,632.
As part of a package of measures aimed at modernising the charity, the League of Friends is streamlining the name it has borne since its inception in 1952. In future its working title will be Bexhill Hospital Friends.
Other measures will include a new-look website.
The charity stands to benefit from a legacy left to East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for use at Bexhill Hospital. League committee members were given a presentation by Trust officers and commercial architects outlining plans for the modernisation and revitalisation of the hospital’s Outpatients Reception Area.
The scheme is aimed at providing a more welcoming atmosphere for patients and improved facilities for the Coffee Shop run by Bexhill Hospital Friends volunteers for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.