The walk is on Sunday 24th August. It will start at 10am from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital bus stop car park and finish at Sandringham Estate Visitors Centre.

We asked our hospital colleagues and friends to join in the fundraising by volunteering on the day.  There will be about a dozen volunteers - team of leaders, guides, people providing refreshments, and first aid.

We, Andre Afonso (staff nurse in main theatres), Jose Dias (charge nurse in Stanhoe ward – medical gastrology), & Adriana Cunha (staff nurse on Terrington ward - medical short stay) are the organisers. We are Portuguese colleagues, aged between 25 and 30 and we met at the QEH.  Andre has been here for four years, Jose for three and Adriana for one year.

Adriana says: ‘We wanted to organize a fundraising event in order to give back something to the hospital and our patients.  Our role as nurses in our various wards does not stop with the immediate care we give to our own patients but extends to all the Trust’s patients.  With the increase needs required by patients affected by dementia we thought it would be appropriate to support them and at the same time give our care teams extra resources’.

The funds raised will go towards purchasing equipment for patients affected by dementia to cater for their special needs.

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