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We
continue to present at the monthly education classes
for new patients provided by the
Rehabilitation Department,
handing out our Recipe Booklet to endorse the talk by the
dietician.
In 2006 we donated £50,000 towards the
cost of a Transeosophageal Echocardiography machine
(TOE),
which assists surgeons by showing pictures of the back
of the heart during an operation.
In the same year, to
assist hospital finances, we pledged two years salary payments
for an
Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist and for a whole time
equivalent in the Rehabilitation Department,
a total over
two years of in excess of £150,000.
More recently
we have undertaken to pay £5,000
per annum to maintain the Phase IV exercise
programme at
Leisure Centres in the community.
The recent loss of our Treasurer, Geoff Lloyd,
was a body blow for the Group.
Between his appointment
in1994 and his death in September he had not only
contributed in his
own meticulous
way to Group activities
and the accounts, but he had represented us locally,
regionally and nationally with great diligence.
This
is evidenced by the number of tributes received far
and wide.
Our
Funwalk in April 2007 and our Patient and Carer
Partnership Meeting in May
were both successful with
many attendees.
We have also become affiliated to
Arrhythmia Alliance and begun vascular work with
stroke organisations.
An ICD (Implantable Cardioverter
Defibrillator) sub-group has been formed and is doing
well.
Our chairman, Ken Timmis, has been accepted onto the
Patient and Carer Network of the
Royal College of Physicians
for a period of three years and has been accepted as
President-Elect of Heart Care Partnership (UK), the
patient and carer arm of the British cardiovascular
Society,
to take office as President in October 2008