Shooting Star Cancer Support

By ZARINA KAGAN

We are a small, local charity, formed in the 1990s in order to construct an outpatient oncology department within the Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

We raised over £2 million for the build and the Unit continues to provide an excellent level of care and treatment for the people of Wrexham.

Since completing this work we have concentrated on a support role and purchased some major pieces of equipment and many other smaller items for the consultants and departments, all of whom do such terrific work with cancer patients in the Maelor Hospital.

We recently purchased an Intraoral Scanner for the Department of Oral health and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Gareth Brock, the Consultant says: “We are incredibly grateful to Shooting Star which has kindly funded this exciting new development, bringing a much improved patient experience and state-ofthe-art technology to help our cancer patients.”

“It is already making a difference to the time our patients have to wait to have this investigation. Thank you Shooting Star for kindly funding this equipment”, says Miss Bramara Guruwadarayarhalli, Consultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Visit our website for a full list of recently funded items by the charity.

Who are we?

We are volunteer trustees who administer the charity which raises money to support the clinicians and the patients being treated in the Shooting Star Unit in Wrexham Maelor Hospital. We fund capital projects that are needed to ease the patient journey where the required equipment may be a low priority for the hospital trust as a whole given the current NHS financial difficulties.

Donations

Donations can also be made via the post, or our website. Please make cheques payable to: ‘Shooting Star Cancer Support’, and send to: Shooting Star Cancer Support, c/o MD Coxey & Co Ltd, 25 Grosvenor Road, Wrexham, LL11 1BT

An Outpatient Hysteroscopy Fluid Management System was recently purchased for the Obstetric and Gynaecology department. www.shootingstarcancersupport.co.uk Email: info@shootingstarcancersupport.co.uk Charity Number: 1079693