Royal Papworth Charity is delighted to have been chosen as one of the Charity Partners for the Thriplow Daffodil Weekend 2020. Everyone at Royal Papworth Hospital is excited about having the opportunity to be a part of this truly fantastic event and the chance to raise vital funds for Royal Papworth Charity.
Royal Papworth Hospital is a globally renowned centre for excellence delivering the very best care and treatments for our patients with cardiovascular disease. We are thrilled to be able to connect with our new Cambridgeshire community as we continue to settle into our purpose built state-of-the-art hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
As a partner of the Thriplow Daffodil Weekend we will be able to raise money towards our largest ever capital appeal in support of the Heart and Lung Research Institute. This is a transformational project and we are hugely grateful to everyone for their generosity and support. The Heart and Lung Research Institute will be a new international centre of excellence for cardiovascular and respiratory research; it will integrate discovery and translational sciences to directly benefit our patients at Royal Papworth Hospital and improve cardiovascular medicine globally.
Royal Papworth is fully committed to addressing the epidemic of heart and lung disease which will kill 1 in 4 of us in the UK if there are no medical advances. We have identified a real and urgent need for this facility, to not only transform the way cardiovascular disease is treated forever but to also train the next generation of scientists and equip them to work across multiple disciplines to accelerate research.
Partnerships such as this not only help to save lives, but also improve lives and save billions in healthcare costs. Together with all the wonderful residents of Thriplow we hope to make 2020 the biggest and best Daffodil Weekend ever.
“Everyone at Royal Papworth Hospital is delighted to be a Charity Partner of the wonderful Thriplow Daffodil Weekend 2020. This event will help Royal Papworth Charity to raise vital funds for the Heart and Lung Research Institute which will not only directly benefit our patients but transform the way cardiovascular disease is treated in the future.”
Stephen Posey, Chief Executive Officer
To find out more go to https://www.papworthhospitalcharity.org.uk/
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East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) is a community-funded service which helps to save hundreds of lives across the region each year. Its highly-skilled doctor and critical care paramedic teams take the hospital to the patient and can attend any type of life-threatening or life-changing incident, such as a road traffic collision or cardiac arrest. Not only do they provide critical care at the scene but can quickly transfer the patient to the most appropriate hospital to get the patient definitive treatment. The charity has two helicopters operating in the region; one from Norwich and one from Cambridge, and can reach anywhere in East Anglia in 25 minutes.
In addition to providing expert care when needed, the charity is committed to training more people in the community in first aid and CPR so that people living in the region can get more immediate help before medical crews arrive at the scene of an emergency. Survival rates from an out of hospital cardiac arrest are just one in ten but early CPR and access to a defibrillator can drastically increase survival rates. The charity offers free CPR training for community groups from its frontline crew and volunteers to try and change this. EAAA also has a dedicated Aftercare Team which helps patients and their families understand what happened during an incident or injury and answer any questions they may have. This team also provides support for the patient throughout their recovery process to help them adjust and to share the patient’s progress with the teams who treated them.
Georgina Forbes, Community Fundraiser at EAAA, said: “We rely on the community to keep our helicopters airborne and saving lives and simple couldn’t help people in their hour of need without that incredible support. We need to raise more than £13 million a year to develop and deliver our service, especially as we aim to fly 24/7 from next year, to allow us to help hundreds more people as there is currently a five hour gap at night in the region where there is no helicopter coverage if needed. It’s such a privilege to be selected as a benefitting charity for an event such as the Thriplow Daffodil Weekend. It really is with community support like this that we’re able to save lives, support out patients as they recover and deliver life-saving CPR training in the community.”
To find out more go to: www.eaaa.org.uk