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Our charity updates
COVID appeal
We have recently relaunched our COVID appeal in response to the requests and kind offers of support from local people. The community can donate via a dedicated JustGiving page,
www.justgiving.com/campaign/ pahtpeople.
Lovely messages have been left from grateful members of the community, including:
To the wonderful kind staff @ PAH – you all do an amazing job. Stay safe everyone!”
Very grateful to all the wonderful staff at PAH, thank you for your dedication and hard work for our community. It is very much appreciated.
All donations to the campaign will be used to support PAHT People.
Last year, the charity funded complimentary refreshments in the Project Wingman lounge, as well as free breakfasts for our staff – you can read more about this below
Thank you - free breakfast
All staff had the opportunity to enjoy a free breakfast earlier this month as a small gesture of thanks for your continued hard work and dedication.
At The Princess Alexandra Hospital, staff enjoyed a free breakfast on a day of their choice at the Alexandra restaurant. Staff also enjoyed a free hot beverage, such as tea or coffee, over the week from 1 February – 7 February.
Staff at St Margaret’s Hospital and Herts and Essex Hospital also enjoyed a free breakfast roll and hot beverage at these sites. Additionally, staff received tasty treats as part of a hamper where more suitable (e.g. Kao Park).
The breakfasts were kindly funded by our charity.
Run the virtual London Marathon for PAHT
Take on the iconic London Marathon your way! In this exciting virtual event, you’ll have from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 on Sunday, 3 October to run or walk 26.2 miles in your local area. Track your route using the Virtual London Marathon App and receive an official finisher’s medal and T-shirt.
The 2020 Virtual London Marathon broke a world record for the most people to complete a remote marathon in 24 hours and this year the London Marathon are aiming even higher, so you could also be part of a Guinness World Record.
The Princess Alexandra Hospitals’ Charity has secured ten charity places for this event, and you can raise money for a ward or department of your choice. The non-refundable, non-transferable registration fee is £20 and we ask that people taking part pledge to raise £150. To secure one of our charity places in this virtual event, please email: paht.fundraising@nhs.net.
What the charity funds
Recently, donations to the charity funded a jaundice monitor (bilimeter) for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Recommendations from The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines show that these Marc is raising money for the NICU. He said:
Family friends, Neil and Laura Rowe, gave birth to the beautiful Ralph 10.5 weeks early and for eight weeks the NICU gave Ralph the great care and aftercare needed.
On Sunday 24 January, Neil and Laura gave birth to another beautiful boy, Sam, 6.5 weeks early and he too is receiving great care from the unit. This is definitely the hardest challenge I have set myself, but hopefully with your support I can achieve it and I promise I will give it my all.
monitors are important to reduce the requirement for blood samples to be taken from babies when measuring jaundice levels.
Blood testing requires a baby to have a heel prick, which is a painful stimuli and can have a long-term impact on babies’ neurological development. The jaundice bilimeter measures the reading through the skin and does not require the need for painful stimuli. This has helped us to provide a better quality of care and experience for babies.
406 miles for NICU
Marc Petters (pictured above) has set himself quite a challenge for February! He is aiming to run one extra mile every day for the 28 days in February. This means that on 1 February, Marc ran a mile, on 2 February he ran two miles, but by 28 February, he will be running 28 miles, which is longer than the London Marathon! This totals an incredible 406 miles.
