Generous members of the Bradford on Avon Rotary Club have donated £2,000 to the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group and have pledged thousands more. Last year’s Rotary club president, Steve Adams, nominated the BCUSG, which funds vital medical equipment for the cancer unit at Bath’s Royal United Hospital, as his charity for the year. The donation, which was unanimously approved by members, was raised despite a challenging year. Because of the lack of fundraising events during the pandemic, many local Rotarians donated their weekly meal costs - which they would have spent if meeting in person - to the club’s charity account.
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BCUSG chairman Mike Taylor (right) with Helen Meehan, lead nurse in the palliative care team at the RUH, in the hospital’s new quiet room The Bath Cancer Unit Support Group (BCUSG) has marked Dying Matters Awareness Week (10-16 May) by handing over a special quiet room it has funded at the Royal United Hospital where the palliative care team can talk confidentially with patients’ families. A former storeroom next to the team’s office in the main hospital corridor has been refurbished and transformed into a comfortable and peaceful consultation room, away from the busy hospital wards. The BCUSG has donated £14,318 towards the cost of the quiet room which will be used by the palliative care team to talk to patients’ families and carers about end-of-life care when there is no quiet room available on the ward.
BCUSG chairman Mike Taylor (right) with Helen Meehan, lead nurse in the palliative care team at the RUH, in the hospital’s new quiet room The Bath Cancer Unit Support Group (BCUSG) has marked Dying Matters Awareness Week (10-16 May) by handing over a special quiet room it has funded at the Royal United Hospital where the palliative care team can talk confidentially with patients’ families. A former storeroom next to the team’s office in the main hospital corridor has been refurbished and transformed into a comfortable and peaceful consultation room, away from the busy hospital wards. The BCUSG has donated £14,318 towards the cost of the quiet room which will be used by the palliative care team to talk to patients’ families and carers about end-of-life care when there is no quiet room available on the ward.