The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Sunny side up – Beatson Cancer Charity
Fundraising is key to the success of the Beatson Cancer Charity.
The charity provides a comprehensive range of patient and family support services including patient wellbeing and complementary therapies provided through its unique and award-winning Wellbeing Centre.
Charlene Elliott, head of fundraising said: “The charity offers incredible services to help support people with cancer and the challenging time for their loved ones. It is fantastic that we are in a position to be able to provide these services locally in Lanarkshire while improving the experience for patients and their loved ones.
“Our ‘Wear It Yellow’ campaign is a fun way to encourage local schools and businesses to get involved and feel part of the new Lanarkshire Beatson. Whether it is wearing yellow onesies, applying yellow face paint or baking yummy yellow treats, there are lots of ways to get involved to help give a massive boost for the new radiotherapy treatment centre. We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to Carluke High School and Laing O’Rourke and hope everyone has a tremendous time wearing it yellow.”
Fantastic fund raising total
Beatson Cancer Charity has raised a staggering £3.5 million since its launch in 2014 – a whole £1.25 million above target.
This fantastic amount has helped the charity to achieve these funding highlights:
- £555,800 towards specialist staff resources which has funded six clinical nurse specialists, a research radiographer, consultant radiographer, a radiographer practice educator, a haemato-oncology nurse practitioner and many more vital posts.
- £365,999 to provide design and environment enhancements at the new Lanarkshire Beatson.
- £22,954.53 on advanced medical equipment including a specialist chair for inpatients suffering from malignant spinal cord compression, electric frame beds and a pulpit walking frame.
- £70,869 towards service developments and enhancements including a new weekend blood transfusion clinic.
- £70,610 towards funding unique and vital research programmes.
- £7,377 towards staff education and training to enable all staff to attend conferences and gain further medical qualifications.
Comments are closed.