Meet East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust Head and Neck Team. We provide safe, personal, and effective care for patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer. Our dedicated team continually strives to enhance the service we offer to ensure all our patients receive a gold star level of care at a very difficult time in their lives.

WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT

We are appealing for your support to help to create a a welcoming retreat on the Head and Neck Ward at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.

What is now an underused, blank, clinical and uninviting space, with your help will be completely transformed into a calm, peaceful, welcoming, and homely environment where head and neck cancer patients, carers, family and friends are able to retreat, relax and take time to reflect on their journeys. The room will also be somewhere where Doctors can have confidential and sometimes sad discussions with patients loved ones.

Everything about the room has been specially designed to be calming and non-clinical. Muted colours and lighting as well as new sofas and chairs, furniture and fittings and those all-important homely touches including tea and coffee making facilities for patients to use at their own leisure. There will also be alternative options for people who have feeding tubes as some of our patients are unable to eat and drink.

Having this new room will give us a space on the ward where we can take patients, getting them out of bed and interacting with others, will be invaluable.

Help us make a difference

You can help us make this valuable difference to the Head and Neck Ward. The current space on the ward is pictured below. With the help of your donation we can make this happen. Thank you!

What makes head and neck cancers different are the facial scars and life-changing impact surgery can have on the vital functions of breathing, swallowing and speech.

We use our face to look out at the world. We are also perceived through it. So much of our face is vital in the way that we interact with the world around us and the way in which we are seen by others. That's why disfigurement, scarring and loss of functionality in the head and neck area can be so destructive to our very being.

As a team we support patients, families, and carers throughout their cancer journey. Head and Neck patients undergo complex treatment programmes which can be challenging and life changing. Here at ELHT our committed and compassionate team strive to improve outcomes for people who suffer from this terrible disease.

Every penny you donate will make a real and lasting difference, helping us to go above and beyond standard NHS provision, to enhance the care and experience for all head and neck patients - who are at the heart of everything we do.