NUH News Summer edition

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Research and
Innovation is the
event members are
most interested in
Membersnews
It's been a busy time for membership
over the past six months with a wide
range of member events.
Themes have included the NUH Charity,
our financial challenge, a tour of our
Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, cancer
services awareness in the community,
food in our hospitals and dementia and
the health of older people.
Feedback reports on all of these events
can be found on the Members' section
of the NUH website. If you have any
ideas for events and what you would like
to learn about NUH then please get in
touch with me.
Over the next few months we are
looking to recruit more young members
(between the age of 16- 21).
UPDATES
& EVENTS
See the internet for more info
www.nuh.nhs.uk/members
Meet our Nottingham Cancer
Clinical Trials Team
Friday 30 September, 2.30pm–4.30pm
City Hospital
The Nottingham Cancer Clinical Trials Team
(NCCTT), formed in 2008, helps patients
take part in cancer clinical trials within
Nottinghamshire. It is part of a larger
network which has five groups specialising
If you, or you know of someone
who is interested in helping to shape
membership for young people e.g.
events, the ways we communicate and
volunteer opportunities, please either
email me at aimi.townsend@nuh.nhs.uk
or telephone 0115 9249924 ext. 76242.
in different types of cancer including
breast, gynaecological, head and
neck cancer and haematological
(blood) cancer. It has its own research
treatment area where a highly skilled
team administers new and established
chemotherapy regimes, novel therapies
which target only the cancer cells),
monoclonal antibodies (a type of
biological therapy) and small molecule
therapies (targeted therapies) along
with different classes of genetically
modified organisms and vaccines for
many trial patients.
Come along to meet the team, have
a tour of the facilities and learn about
other types of cancer treatments and
investigations the NCCTT participate in.
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Sailing day for NUH
patients and families
One of our hospital consultants recently
organised a sailing day attended by 60
children and young people and their
families – many of them patients at
Nottingham Children’s Hospital.
Dr David Thomas is a Consultant
Paediatrician with our Children and
Young People’s Service, and a keen a
sailor outside of work. Working alongside
Children’s Hospital colleagues and the
youth service and with the support of the
national charity WellChild – which creates
opportunities for seriously ill children to
spend time away of hospital – a full day
of activities at Carsington Sailing Club in
Derbyshire was arranged.
David said: “It was a fabulous day. We’ve
done this event every year for the last four
years, and this year’s was the biggest and
most successful yet.
“What was really pleasing was the
inclusivity in terms of both disabled and
able-bodied children and young people
being able to take part. They all got out
onto the water, and it was amazing to
see them doing something many of them
didn’t think possible – sailing.”