The NNUH palliative care team are a multi professional team providing care within a hospital setting for patients with life-limiting illnesses. As a Specialist Palliative Care team working in the acute sector of the NHS, the aim is to try and offer facilities close to those provided by hospices to support patients who die at NNUH. This includes the family of, and those important to, the patient.

The Pink Poppy is the symbol of palliative care at NNUH. Donations to the Pink Poppy fund help to provide the extras, over and above what the NHS must and should do, to support patients and their relatives or carers.

The fund supports outpatients attending the symptom management and supportive care clinics as well as inpatients who are approaching the end of life.

Areas and items we aim to fund are:

- equipment such as foldaway beds and comfort packs for relatives staying with patients who are dying in NNUH

- Memory Boxes and age-specific specialist books for children whose parents or close relatives are dying

- additional syringe drivers to be used to relieve patient symptoms such as pain

- additional nebulisers to be loaned to patients with breathlessness

- hand held fans and equipment to be given to patients attending the breathlessness service

- TENS machines to be loaned to patients with pain

- additional training and staff development opportunities to support better care for patients and families

- other initiatives which will improve the care of palliative patients or their relatives

Please help us to do more to support patients at the end of their life, and their families, by making a donation to our Pink Poppy fund.

Thank you.