Dear Friends
On behalf of the Friends’ Committee and all the staff of Tetbury Hospital may we thank you for all your incredible support in 2018.
It’s been another good year, and we have raised a record amount of money for much needed equipment for our lovely hospital, so we are VERY grateful for your continued involvement. Many of you help with our annual door to door collection or organise your own events, or donate whenever you see a collecting box or hospital event needing support and without this our hospital would not be on such as good footing as it is going into 2019.
May 2019 be happy and very healthy and we all wish you a very Happy Christmas and merry New Year.
With best wishes
Katharine Landale
Chairman, The Friends of Tetbury Hospital
Do your Christmas shop online through ‘Easy Fundraising' and 'Give As You Live’and raise funds for Tetbury Hospital
Do remember when you start to do your Christmas shopping that thousands of stores will donate money to your favourite charity - in this case Tetbury Hospital when you shop online. All it requires is a couple of clicks of your mouse at no cost to you.
It really is simple....
Log on to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/tetburyhospital/. You will open the Friends of Tetbury Hospital page on the Easyfundraising site. Use "Browse retailers" to navigate the retailer you want to use. On the retailer page you will find details of the amount the store will donate - usually between 1-3% of what you spend. The important thing is that you go to the retailer's website via Easyfundraising and choose The Friends of Tetbury Hospital as your charity.
‘Give as you Live’ operates in a very similar way. Go to their website - www.giveasyoulive.com - and follow the simple instructions.
Antique valuations raised cash for our hospital
The Friends of Tetbury Hospital organized an ‘Antiques Roadshow’ type event in Tetbury recently to raise funds for the hospital.
Auctioneers from Moore Allen & Innocent held one of their popular antiques valuation days at wine merchants Vinotopia in Tetbury and hundreds came along and brought their ceramics, paintings, jewellery and collectables to get a professional valuation.
Auctioneer Philip Allwood valued antiques during the day and donations were made to the Friends. The Tetbury Hospital Trust is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
The event raised £88.08 and is sure to be repeated.
Published 18/10/2018
Dear Friends
On behalf of the Friends’ Committee and all the staff of Tetbury Hospital may we thank you for all your incredible support in 2018.
It’s been another good year, and we have raised a record amount of money for much needed equipment for our lovely hospital, so we are VERY grateful for your continued involvement. Many of you help with our annual door to door collection or organise your own events, or donate whenever you see a collecting box or hospital event needing support and without this our hospital would not be on such as good footing as it is going into 2019.
May 2019 be happy and very healthy and we all wish you a very Happy Christmas and merry New Year.
With best wishes
Katharine Landale
Chairman, The Friends of Tetbury Hospital
TETBURY HOSPITAL HOUSE-TO-HOUSE COLLECTION FUNDS NEW ULTRASOUND MACHINE
The Friends of Tetbury Hospital 2018 house-to-house collection has raised a massive £10,539.80 (including gift aid). This year the money raised will go towards purchasing an ultrasound machine for the Day Case Unit.
An ultrasound machine can aid in a variety of surgical procedures, particularly foot and ankle surgery. Using ultrasound, the anaesthetist can visualise the nerves which provide movement and sensation to parts of the body, and then inject local anaesthetic around them.
Comments Katharine Landale, acting chairman of The Friends of Tetbury Hospital, ‘We are absolutely delighted with the amount the House to House raised this year and on behalf of The Friends of Tetbury Hospital can I thank everyone who kindly donated in Tetbury and the surrounding areas for their generosity. In addition, huge thanks are due to all the Volunteers who collected money and delivered envelopes, their hard work has achieved a fabulous result.’
Published 04/08/2018
Tetbury-based gym, BPF Fitness Hub, has raised £1463.75 for Tetbury Hospital during its Charity Challenge on July 10th.
Aiming to cover 592 miles by bike, rower or Skierg, in the gym - the distance between Tetbury and its twin town Zwingenberg in Germany - more than 90 people took part, including gym staff, members and many others. Despite the scorching temperatures outside, they covered 1772 km (just over 1100 miles) – twice the distance planned!
Commented Andrea from BPF Hub,"The BPF Fitness Hub Charity Challenge was a huge success. The event was fantastically supported by gym members and non-members alike. We cannot thank everyone who participated enough, the support was overwhelming and especially touching as it was also the 1st anniversary of the opening of BPF Fitness Hub. We are committed to the community of Tetbury and will be holding more charity events to help local causes in the future."
Published 16/07/2018
Look out for the Friends of Tetbury Hospital fund-raisers who will be running their annual house-to-house collection from Monday 18th June to Saturday 23rd June.
This year the Friends are aiming to raise £18,000 to buy two pieces of equipment a new ultrasound machine for the hospital’s Day Case Unit as well as a replacement defibrillator.
An ultrasound machine will increase the number of procedures we can offer from the hospital, it can aid in a variety of surgical procedures, particularly foot and ankle surgery. Using ultrasound, the anaesthetist can visualise the nerves, which provide movement and sensation to parts of the body, and inject local anaesthetic around them.
The hospital also needs to fund a replacement defibrillator, the current machine is getting old and a new machine is required, a defibrillator restarts the heart during a cardiac arrest and can also be used to control and regulate abnormal heart rhythms to prevent a cardiac arrest.
Published 25/04/2018
UROLOGY SERVICE – NEW DAY CASE PROCEDURES
Mr David Jones, Consultant Urologist
Mr David Jones has been consulting outpatients at Tetbury Hospital since 2005 and continues to do so. We are happy to announce he is now also carrying out surgical procedures in our Day Surgery Unit. Mr Jones consults NHS and private patients.
Published 16/02/2018
Mr Philip Kaloo, Consultant Gynaecologist
We are pleased to welcome Mr Philip Kaloo to Tetbury Hospital Trust. Mr Kaloo is a highly experienced Consultant Gynaecologist and Laparoscopic Surgeon with a special interest in pelvic pain, endometriosis, menstrual disorders, PCOS and PMS. Mr Kaloo consults NHS and private patients.
Dr Emily Davies, Consultant Dermatologist
We are also pleased to welcome Dr Emily Davies who has recently joined us at Tetbury Hospital Trust. Dr Davies covers all areas of dermatology with a special interest in inflammatory skin disorders such as psoriasis, eczema and female genital skin conditions as well as skin tumours.
Dr Davies consults NHS patients
Published 09/02/2018
2018 is a big year for Tetbury Hospital
Did you know we have been delivering healthcare from our hospital building for 145 years? We joined the NHS when it started and have been providing NHS services for 70 years. We re-opened our doors on 8th February 1993 as a Charity, after the town had raised £1 million and saved the hospital from closure... that’s now 25 years ago!
We’d love to celebrate our success by capturing as much of our social history as possible. We have many photos but we would love to have lots more to fill the display wall in our Outpatient Department waiting area. We are very proud of our community’s determination and generosity to keep Tetbury Hospital open. We want to celebrate this by capturing and displaying our community’s spirit.
If you have worked at Tetbury Hospital in the past we would love to hear from you! If you have fundraised for us and have photos to lighten up our display boards, we would love to hear from you! If you have any stories you wish to share with us, we would love to hear from you!
Please post your pictures and stories to the Chief Executive, Tetbury Hospital, Malmesbury Road, Tetbury GL8 8XB or email them to enquiries@tetburyhospital.co.uk with the subject line ’25 years’.
Unfortunately we will not be able to return any photos sent to us by post.
Published 8/1/2018
We would like to say a very warm ‘welcome’ to Mr John Grice, a local Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who is joining our team at Tetbury Hospital.
Mr Grice qualified from University College London Medical School in 2003. During that period he also had a very busy International hockey career for England and Great Britain.
Mr Grice’s passion is sport and in particular sports medicine, he specialises in foot and ankle and sports medicine conditions. In his spare time he is the pitch side doctor for Swindon Town Football club and although he no longer plays professional hockey he covers the medical requirements of games and tournaments for Great Britain Women and Men’s senior Hockey team. He also regularly provides ringside trauma cover as the medical officer for the English Amateur Boxing Association.
Mr Grice said "I am excited to join the team at Tetbury both for the interesting foot and ankle and sports injury work that I can offer local patients, but also for the unique work environment provided by this delightful hospital."
If you visit your GP and it is felt you need a referral to a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in foot and ankle and sports medicine please remember to tell your GP that you would like to choose Tetbury Hospital.
Mr Grice is offering outpatient consultations and day case surgery from Tetbury Hospital Trust from November.
Published 07/11/2017
Heather Cotterell has worked in our outpatient booking office for many years, working with our consultants, taking calls from patients and GP surgeries to schedule appointments for clinic. Now, after 23 years of service at Tetbury Hospital she has decided to take her retirement and try to slow down and put her feet up… Heather asked for no fuss, so we kept it low key….kind of!
Having joined the Trust only a few years after we opened as a charity Heather has seen many changes. Zena Dalton, Chief Executive, said ‘The outpatient booking office is a very important department in the hospital, it is often the first contact point patients have with our service and first impressions are very important. Heather’s professional, personal and happy demeanour put everyone at ease’. Stephen Hirst, Chairman said ‘This is not goodbye, but rather a farewell for now. We hope to see Heather in the booking office again, helping us out…. if she can pull herself away from her well-deserved retirement. Heather is one of our long service employees who have provided great service to Tetbury Hospital and maybe more importantly the community of Tetbury’
The staff and Trustees would like to thank Heather for her dedicated service to the Hospital and wish her a long and happy retirement.
Published 24/9/2017
Tetbury Hospital would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to the Tetbury Lions Club for choosing the hospital for its fundraising drive in its centenary year.
The Lions and the generous community of Tetbury raised a whopping £15,000 to replace Tetbury Hospital’s Visual Fields Analyser. This ensures specialist NHS ophthalmology services continue to be delivered from our hospital.
Hospital, Chief Executive, Zena Dalton, attended the charter night with Matron Susan Probert. When presented with the cheque Mrs Dalton thanked the Lions and all those who had donated for their generosity, ‘This donation means we can replace our current Visual Fields Analyser, affectionately known by all who use him as Humphrey, and ensures our ophthalmology service carries on its essential work for many, many years to come.’
Published 25/10/2017
Tennis players in Shipton Moyne raised a massive £4586.00 for The Friends of Tetbury Hospital at their annual tournament for adults and children on 2nd September. The event supports a range of charities and this year kindly supported The Friends. As a bonus The Friends will be able to claim gift aid on £1841.00 of the final total.
Published 7/10/2017
When Bob Frayling, Head Groundsman at Westonbirt School, was asked what he wanted as a retirement gift he asked for a Charity Golf Day to be held at Westonbirt Golf Course, with the money raised to go to Tetbury Hospital.
Bob, who was 70 in January, had been a groundsman and green keeper at Westonbirt since 1982 and in 1999 became their Head Groundsman. He officially hung up his gardening gloves in 2015, having worked part time since 2011 when he turned 65.
Bob says ‘This was the first time we have put on BB’s Charity Golf Day and we raised £648 for the Hospital. Next year we hope to raise even more’.
Test Match Special commentator, Jonathan Agnew (Aggers), together with sporting friends he met at the Rio Olympics, entertained fans and locals last Friday (27th January 2017) at the Holy Trinity Church, Long Newnton.
Aggers chatted with special guest Tina Cook, British three day event rider and three time Olympic medallist and Aggers fellow commentator at the Rio Olympics as well as Alistair Bruce-Ball from BBC Radio 5 live. Over £5000 was raised during the evening and over half the proceeds are going to Tetbury Hospital with the rest going towards Long Newnton church.
The Coventry Building Society and its customers have been busy over the past months raising money for Tetbury Hospital and has been able to provide much-needed equipment as a result.
The Coventry recently handed over a cheque for £870.51 to the Friends of Tetbury Hospital which will buy a vital signs monitor and an electronic thermometer for the Day Surgery Unit. A further £1,100 was raised last year to provide the hospital with a state-of-the-art dermatoscope which helps clinicians see very small changes in the skin to aid early diagnosis.
The money was raised through sponsored walks, raffles and an ongoing book sale. Some of the Coventry’s customers have also been very generous in making individual donations.
The Coventry Building Society nominated The Friends of Tetbury Hospital as their Community Partner for the Tetbury Branch in 2015 and in the past couple of years have held various fund-raising events.
Tetbury Hospital Chief Executive Zena Dalton comments: ‘We have had great support from the Coventry. The generosity of their customers and the commitment the Tetbury branch has put into fund-raising for our town’s hospital is inspiring. Without this type of support we simply wouldn’t exist’.
Published 22.5.2017
Local school brightens up Tetbury Hospital
When Tetbury Hospital asked the Sir William Romney School to do a painting to brighten up the children’s waiting area at the hospital the school’s art students rose to the challenge.
The colourful mural shows all the well-known buildings in Tetbury and shows ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ at ‘The Goods Shed’ looking to see what events are on; the Minions playing football at the school and ‘Where’s Wally’ running up Gumstool Hill taking part in the town’s celebrated annual woolsack race. (This year’s race is to be held on Bank Holiday Monday 29th May).
Mr Davies, Sir William Romney’s art teacher said: ‘The planning work behind the mural was important as we wanted to ensure it included both modern and traditional characters that children of all ages would recognise.’
Tetbury Hospital Chief Executive Zena Dalton commented: ‘The students have done a fantastic job and we have received a lot of positive comments about the mural. I would also like to thank pupils Mimi Saunders and Leah Manning for their contribution, unfortunately, they were unable to attend the unveiling’.
Published 22.5.2017
Sunlight has been used for thousands of years in the treatment of skin disease. Since February 2017 Tetbury Hospital has been able to offer phototherapy to patients with a range of skin conditions who have been referred via consultant dermatologists.
The new phototherapy booth was funded thanks to the Friends of Tetbury Hospital who raised the £54,000 needed through various events and activities.
Phototherapy literally means use of light to treat medical conditions. It is the ultraviolet part of the light produced by the sun which is used in phototherapy. This light reduces the inflammation of the skin and can help in various inflammatory skin disorders, such as psoriasis.
The treatment involves patients visiting the hospital twice a week for a course of treatment, the length of the course is dependent on the skin condition being treated and the patient’s response to treatment. Patients receive the treatment while standing in a special booth which delivers a measured dose of light.
The dose of UV light is based on the patient’s skin type. The booth calculates the dose and how long to exposure the skin to the light to ensure that is not damaged. The idea is to reduce inflammation of the diseased skin with a specific dose of UV light being delivered to help the skin condition and minimise further skin damage.
The hospital has three trained nurses who deliver the phototherapy under the clinical guidance of our consultant dermatologist Dr Tom Millard. Access to this service is via a GP referral to our dermatology service, or, if you are being seen at another hospital for your skin condition and phototherapy has been prescribed you can ask to be referred to us to have your treatment.
Dr Millard acknowledges the benefits of this type of UV light in treating skin disease, he also advocates limited natural sun exposure as it has a positive impact on vitamin D levels and a person’s general health, as long as a common sense approach to sun-protection is taken. Dr Millard explains, relying on limited exposure to direct sunlight, shade, hats, clothing and, where necessary, sunscreen is the best way to protect your skin, he goes on to explain that avoidance of sunburn in young people is of particular importance in cancer prevention.
The best advice we could give you this summer is to stay in the shade and not to sunbathe, but the decision is yours, if you choose to sunbathe the second best option to protect your skin is to use sunscreen, applied thickly and frequently enough and without missing bits to achieve the manufacturer’s stated SPF. Above all, enjoy the good weather, stay safe and do not burn!
Published 14.7.2017
On behalf of the Friends’ Committee and all the staff of Tetbury Hospital may we thank you for all your incredible support in 2018.
It’s been another good year, and we have raised a record amount of money for much needed equipment for our lovely hospital, so we are VERY grateful for your continued involvement. Many of you help with our annual door to door collection or organise your own events, or donate whenever you see a collecting box or hospital event needing support and without this our hospital would not be on such as good footing as it is going into 2019.
May 2019 be happy and very healthy and we all wish you a very Happy Christmas and merry New Year.
With best wishes
Katharine Landale
Chairman, The Friends of Tetbury Hospital
News
Easyfundraising
Do your Christmas shop online through ‘Easy Fundraising' and 'Give As You Live’and raise funds for Tetbury Hospital
Do remember when you start to do your Christmas shopping that thousands of stores will donate money to your favourite charity - in this case Tetbury Hospital when you shop online. All it requires is a couple of clicks of your mouse at no cost to you.
It really is simple....
Log on to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/tetburyhospital/. You will open the Friends of Tetbury Hospital page on the Easyfundraising site. Use "Browse retailers" to navigate the retailer you want to use. On the retailer page you will find details of the amount the store will donate - usually between 1-3% of what you spend. The important thing is that you go to the retailer's website via Easyfundraising and choose The Friends of Tetbury Hospital as your charity.
‘Give as you Live’ operates in a very similar way. Go to their website - www.giveasyoulive.com - and follow the simple instructions.
Valuation Day 2018
Antique valuations raised cash for our hospital
The Friends of Tetbury Hospital organized an ‘Antiques Roadshow’ type event in Tetbury recently to raise funds for the hospital.
Auctioneers from Moore Allen & Innocent held one of their popular antiques valuation days at wine merchants Vinotopia in Tetbury and hundreds came along and brought their ceramics, paintings, jewellery and collectables to get a professional valuation.
Auctioneer Philip Allwood valued antiques during the day and donations were made to the Friends. The Tetbury Hospital Trust is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
The event raised £88.08 and is sure to be repeated.
Published 18/10/2018
News
Dear Friends
On behalf of the Friends’ Committee and all the staff of Tetbury Hospital may we thank you for all your incredible support in 2018.
It’s been another good year, and we have raised a record amount of money for much needed equipment for our lovely hospital, so we are VERY grateful for your continued involvement. Many of you help with our annual door to door collection or organise your own events, or donate whenever you see a collecting box or hospital event needing support and without this our hospital would not be on such as good footing as it is going into 2019.
May 2019 be happy and very healthy and we all wish you a very Happy Christmas and merry New Year.
With best wishes
Katharine Landale
Chairman, The Friends of Tetbury Hospital
House to House Collection 2018 - how it went
TETBURY HOSPITAL HOUSE-TO-HOUSE COLLECTION FUNDS NEW ULTRASOUND MACHINE
The Friends of Tetbury Hospital 2018 house-to-house collection has raised a massive £10,539.80 (including gift aid). This year the money raised will go towards purchasing an ultrasound machine for the Day Case Unit.
An ultrasound machine can aid in a variety of surgical procedures, particularly foot and ankle surgery. Using ultrasound, the anaesthetist can visualise the nerves which provide movement and sensation to parts of the body, and then inject local anaesthetic around them.
Comments Katharine Landale, acting chairman of The Friends of Tetbury Hospital, ‘We are absolutely delighted with the amount the House to House raised this year and on behalf of The Friends of Tetbury Hospital can I thank everyone who kindly donated in Tetbury and the surrounding areas for their generosity. In addition, huge thanks are due to all the Volunteers who collected money and delivered envelopes, their hard work has achieved a fabulous result.’
Published 04/08/2018
Local gym raises funds for hospital
Tetbury-based gym, BPF Fitness Hub, has raised £1463.75 for Tetbury Hospital during its Charity Challenge on July 10th.
Aiming to cover 592 miles by bike, rower or Skierg, in the gym - the distance between Tetbury and its twin town Zwingenberg in Germany - more than 90 people took part, including gym staff, members and many others. Despite the scorching temperatures outside, they covered 1772 km (just over 1100 miles) – twice the distance planned!
Commented Andrea from BPF Hub,"The BPF Fitness Hub Charity Challenge was a huge success. The event was fantastically supported by gym members and non-members alike. We cannot thank everyone who participated enough, the support was overwhelming and especially touching as it was also the 1st anniversary of the opening of BPF Fitness Hub. We are committed to the community of Tetbury and will be holding more charity events to help local causes in the future."
Published 16/07/2018
Tetbury Hospital 2018 House-to-House Collection
Look out for the Friends of Tetbury Hospital fund-raisers who will be running their annual house-to-house collection from Monday 18th June to Saturday 23rd June.
This year the Friends are aiming to raise £18,000 to buy two pieces of equipment a new ultrasound machine for the hospital’s Day Case Unit as well as a replacement defibrillator.
An ultrasound machine will increase the number of procedures we can offer from the hospital, it can aid in a variety of surgical procedures, particularly foot and ankle surgery. Using ultrasound, the anaesthetist can visualise the nerves, which provide movement and sensation to parts of the body, and inject local anaesthetic around them.
The hospital also needs to fund a replacement defibrillator, the current machine is getting old and a new machine is required, a defibrillator restarts the heart during a cardiac arrest and can also be used to control and regulate abnormal heart rhythms to prevent a cardiac arrest.
Published 25/04/2018
New consultants for 2018
UROLOGY SERVICE – NEW DAY CASE PROCEDURES
Mr David Jones, Consultant Urologist
Mr David Jones has been consulting outpatients at Tetbury Hospital since 2005 and continues to do so. We are happy to announce he is now also carrying out surgical procedures in our Day Surgery Unit. Mr Jones consults NHS and private patients.
Published 16/02/2018
Mr Philip Kaloo, Consultant Gynaecologist
We are pleased to welcome Mr Philip Kaloo to Tetbury Hospital Trust. Mr Kaloo is a highly experienced Consultant Gynaecologist and Laparoscopic Surgeon with a special interest in pelvic pain, endometriosis, menstrual disorders, PCOS and PMS. Mr Kaloo consults NHS and private patients.
Dr Emily Davies, Consultant Dermatologist
We are also pleased to welcome Dr Emily Davies who has recently joined us at Tetbury Hospital Trust. Dr Davies covers all areas of dermatology with a special interest in inflammatory skin disorders such as psoriasis, eczema and female genital skin conditions as well as skin tumours.
Dr Davies consults NHS patients
Published 09/02/2018
25 years as a charitable trust
Did you know we have been delivering healthcare from our hospital building for 145 years? We joined the NHS when it started and have been providing NHS services for 70 years. We re-opened our doors on 8th February 1993 as a Charity, after the town had raised £1 million and saved the hospital from closure... that’s now 25 years ago!
We’d love to celebrate our success by capturing as much of our social history as possible. We have many photos but we would love to have lots more to fill the display wall in our Outpatient Department waiting area. We are very proud of our community’s determination and generosity to keep Tetbury Hospital open. We want to celebrate this by capturing and displaying our community’s spirit.
If you have worked at Tetbury Hospital in the past we would love to hear from you! If you have fundraised for us and have photos to lighten up our display boards, we would love to hear from you! If you have any stories you wish to share with us, we would love to hear from you!
Please post your pictures and stories to the Chief Executive, Tetbury Hospital, Malmesbury Road, Tetbury GL8 8XB or email them to enquiries@tetburyhospital.co.uk with the subject line ’25 years’.
Unfortunately we will not be able to return any photos sent to us by post.
Published 8/1/2018
New Orthopaedic Surgeon joins team
Mr Grice qualified from University College London Medical School in 2003. During that period he also had a very busy International hockey career for England and Great Britain.
Mr Grice’s passion is sport and in particular sports medicine, he specialises in foot and ankle and sports medicine conditions. In his spare time he is the pitch side doctor for Swindon Town Football club and although he no longer plays professional hockey he covers the medical requirements of games and tournaments for Great Britain Women and Men’s senior Hockey team. He also regularly provides ringside trauma cover as the medical officer for the English Amateur Boxing Association.
Mr Grice said "I am excited to join the team at Tetbury both for the interesting foot and ankle and sports injury work that I can offer local patients, but also for the unique work environment provided by this delightful hospital."
If you visit your GP and it is felt you need a referral to a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in foot and ankle and sports medicine please remember to tell your GP that you would like to choose Tetbury Hospital.
Mr Grice is offering outpatient consultations and day case surgery from Tetbury Hospital Trust from November.
Published 07/11/2017
Happy Retirement Heather!
Heather Cotterell has worked in our outpatient booking office for many years, working with our consultants, taking calls from patients and GP surgeries to schedule appointments for clinic. Now, after 23 years of service at Tetbury Hospital she has decided to take her retirement and try to slow down and put her feet up… Heather asked for no fuss, so we kept it low key….kind of!
Having joined the Trust only a few years after we opened as a charity Heather has seen many changes. Zena Dalton, Chief Executive, said ‘The outpatient booking office is a very important department in the hospital, it is often the first contact point patients have with our service and first impressions are very important. Heather’s professional, personal and happy demeanour put everyone at ease’. Stephen Hirst, Chairman said ‘This is not goodbye, but rather a farewell for now. We hope to see Heather in the booking office again, helping us out…. if she can pull herself away from her well-deserved retirement. Heather is one of our long service employees who have provided great service to Tetbury Hospital and maybe more importantly the community of Tetbury’
The staff and Trustees would like to thank Heather for her dedicated service to the Hospital and wish her a long and happy retirement.
Published 24/9/2017
Lions fund new eye equipment for Tetbury Hospital
The Lions and the generous community of Tetbury raised a whopping £15,000 to replace Tetbury Hospital’s Visual Fields Analyser. This ensures specialist NHS ophthalmology services continue to be delivered from our hospital.
Hospital, Chief Executive, Zena Dalton, attended the charter night with Matron Susan Probert. When presented with the cheque Mrs Dalton thanked the Lions and all those who had donated for their generosity, ‘This donation means we can replace our current Visual Fields Analyser, affectionately known by all who use him as Humphrey, and ensures our ophthalmology service carries on its essential work for many, many years to come.’
Published 25/10/2017
Shipton Moyne serves up funds for Tetbury Hospital
Tennis players in Shipton Moyne raised a massive £4586.00 for The Friends of Tetbury Hospital at their annual tournament for adults and children on 2nd September. The event supports a range of charities and this year kindly supported The Friends. As a bonus The Friends will be able to claim gift aid on £1841.00 of the final total.
Published 7/10/2017
Big Bob’s Golf Day
When Bob Frayling, Head Groundsman at Westonbirt School, was asked what he wanted as a retirement gift he asked for a Charity Golf Day to be held at Westonbirt Golf Course, with the money raised to go to Tetbury Hospital.
Bob, who was 70 in January, had been a groundsman and green keeper at Westonbirt since 1982 and in 1999 became their Head Groundsman. He officially hung up his gardening gloves in 2015, having worked part time since 2011 when he turned 65.
Bob says ‘This was the first time we have put on BB’s Charity Golf Day and we raised £648 for the Hospital. Next year we hope to raise even more’.
Aggers entertains and raises funds for Tetbury Hospital
Test Match Special commentator, Jonathan Agnew (Aggers), together with sporting friends he met at the Rio Olympics, entertained fans and locals last Friday (27th January 2017) at the Holy Trinity Church, Long Newnton.
Aggers chatted with special guest Tina Cook, British three day event rider and three time Olympic medallist and Aggers fellow commentator at the Rio Olympics as well as Alistair Bruce-Ball from BBC Radio 5 live. Over £5000 was raised during the evening and over half the proceeds are going to Tetbury Hospital with the rest going towards Long Newnton church.
Coventry Building Society provides a helping hand to Tetbury Hospital
The Coventry Building Society and its customers have been busy over the past months raising money for Tetbury Hospital and has been able to provide much-needed equipment as a result.
The Coventry recently handed over a cheque for £870.51 to the Friends of Tetbury Hospital which will buy a vital signs monitor and an electronic thermometer for the Day Surgery Unit. A further £1,100 was raised last year to provide the hospital with a state-of-the-art dermatoscope which helps clinicians see very small changes in the skin to aid early diagnosis.
The money was raised through sponsored walks, raffles and an ongoing book sale. Some of the Coventry’s customers have also been very generous in making individual donations.
The Coventry Building Society nominated The Friends of Tetbury Hospital as their Community Partner for the Tetbury Branch in 2015 and in the past couple of years have held various fund-raising events.
Tetbury Hospital Chief Executive Zena Dalton comments: ‘We have had great support from the Coventry. The generosity of their customers and the commitment the Tetbury branch has put into fund-raising for our town’s hospital is inspiring. Without this type of support we simply wouldn’t exist’.
Published 22.5.2017
Local school brightens up Tetbury Hospital
When Tetbury Hospital asked the Sir William Romney School to do a painting to brighten up the children’s waiting area at the hospital the school’s art students rose to the challenge.
The colourful mural shows all the well-known buildings in Tetbury and shows ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ at ‘The Goods Shed’ looking to see what events are on; the Minions playing football at the school and ‘Where’s Wally’ running up Gumstool Hill taking part in the town’s celebrated annual woolsack race. (This year’s race is to be held on Bank Holiday Monday 29th May).
Mr Davies, Sir William Romney’s art teacher said: ‘The planning work behind the mural was important as we wanted to ensure it included both modern and traditional characters that children of all ages would recognise.’
Tetbury Hospital Chief Executive Zena Dalton commented: ‘The students have done a fantastic job and we have received a lot of positive comments about the mural. I would also like to thank pupils Mimi Saunders and Leah Manning for their contribution, unfortunately, they were unable to attend the unveiling’.
Published 22.5.2017
New Phototherapy Department at Tetbury Hospital
Sunlight has been used for thousands of years in the treatment of skin disease. Since February 2017 Tetbury Hospital has been able to offer phototherapy to patients with a range of skin conditions who have been referred via consultant dermatologists.
The new phototherapy booth was funded thanks to the Friends of Tetbury Hospital who raised the £54,000 needed through various events and activities.
Phototherapy literally means use of light to treat medical conditions. It is the ultraviolet part of the light produced by the sun which is used in phototherapy. This light reduces the inflammation of the skin and can help in various inflammatory skin disorders, such as psoriasis.
The treatment involves patients visiting the hospital twice a week for a course of treatment, the length of the course is dependent on the skin condition being treated and the patient’s response to treatment. Patients receive the treatment while standing in a special booth which delivers a measured dose of light.
The dose of UV light is based on the patient’s skin type. The booth calculates the dose and how long to exposure the skin to the light to ensure that is not damaged. The idea is to reduce inflammation of the diseased skin with a specific dose of UV light being delivered to help the skin condition and minimise further skin damage.
The hospital has three trained nurses who deliver the phototherapy under the clinical guidance of our consultant dermatologist Dr Tom Millard. Access to this service is via a GP referral to our dermatology service, or, if you are being seen at another hospital for your skin condition and phototherapy has been prescribed you can ask to be referred to us to have your treatment.
Dr Millard acknowledges the benefits of this type of UV light in treating skin disease, he also advocates limited natural sun exposure as it has a positive impact on vitamin D levels and a person’s general health, as long as a common sense approach to sun-protection is taken. Dr Millard explains, relying on limited exposure to direct sunlight, shade, hats, clothing and, where necessary, sunscreen is the best way to protect your skin, he goes on to explain that avoidance of sunburn in young people is of particular importance in cancer prevention.
The best advice we could give you this summer is to stay in the shade and not to sunbathe, but the decision is yours, if you choose to sunbathe the second best option to protect your skin is to use sunscreen, applied thickly and frequently enough and without missing bits to achieve the manufacturer’s stated SPF. Above all, enjoy the good weather, stay safe and do not burn!
Published 14.7.2017
