Below are some events that took place for Arrhythmia Awareness Week. If you have any photographs or would like to write anything about your event for the website, please contact Laura
“This photo is of the display that we did at our local Health Centre in Coatbridge, where most of the District Nurses and their students showed great interest in all the literature, and they all took a selection of the information leaflets away with them. They were all asking about the AA as most of them did not know about it or about STARS. We also had posters and leaflets in the local chemists, the library, the Arts Centres and I even put a display in the Reception at the holiday park where we have our static caravan in Dunoon”
Jane Mackay
These photos were taken at St Helier’s hospital where the cardiology team held an event for Arrhythmia Awareness Week 2007
Tracey Garde, Matron at Royal Bolton Hospital promoted Arrhythmia Awareness week at their ICD support group meeting and within the hospital.
STARS members Julie and Andrew Fear held a stand promoting Arrhythmia Awareness Week and were supported by their daughter Naomi who made some wonderful heart cakes to help raise funds. Julie's mother and father also helped so it was a family affair! Andrew, who is also a Trustee of STARS, presented to 50 members on the work of the charity and Julie put together packs to give out to GPs in the area.
7 members of the Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association (GUCH PA) walked along Hadrian’s Wall to raise awareness of arrhythmias. Between them walked over 500 miles, with 3 completing the entire walk, 2 having to leave for other commitments (though one came back and did 70 miles in total), all did over 50 miles and there were no major problems. The walk was stunningly beautiful, even when walking in 3 days of met office weather warnings and when we did need to use our plans (because someone's feet were tired they worked like a treat).
Nicky Margerison ran a stand to raise awareness at Harefield Hospital.
Margaret Bird ran a stand to raise awareness at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral
The Dudley Group of Health Libraries did a fantastic job in promoting arrhythmia awareness week.
The idea of promoting Arrhythmia Alliance’s (AA) Arrhythmia Awareness Week at Dudley Health Libraries arose out of a wider strategy to make evidence based electronic information resources more widely known to and used by our respective readerships. These include NHS staff and students in both the acute and primary care settings. The Specialist Libraries (SLs) available through the National Library for Health are a major subject of these, but we look to calendar based events to schedule individual promotional campaigns. Such events can be held close to or around a national conference in the topic. Another tactic is to associate them with the SLs’ National Knowledge Weeks. In the case of the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library (CVDSL), its partnership with AA meant that the AAW was the obvious analogous choice.
Hannah Whitman and her mother Alexandra (both members of STARS) held an event at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and an event at Salisbury District Hospital at Odstock, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Hannah has suffered RAS since aged 7. She is now 10. She is keen to help promote awareness and understanding of the condition for the benefit of other RAS sufferers and has written her own case study for the STARS Education website, so this is now available on line.
Karen Wilson, Acting Lead Cardiology Nurse, held a stand at Peterborough Hospital throughout Arrhythmia Awareness Week
Sam Shunmoogum , ICD support Group Leader, held a display at the Milton Keynes Community Cardiac Group.
A raffle was held from prizes donated by members of both groups and raised £145.The monies was shared equally between the AA and Milton Keynes Community Cardiac Group.
Two promotional packs were delivered to two GP practices locally.
Toni De Freitas, the Cardiac Improvement Manager of the Sussex Heart Network, held this event at the Conquest Hospital. See press coverage
Ellen Berry, BHF Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist from Nottingham University Hospital held a promotional stand at the hospital in support of the Arrhythmia Awareness Week. Anne Jolly from SADS UK supported Ellen and donated five top-of-the-range cardiac memo devices for use at the hospital. See press coverage
The University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire had 3 stands around the hospital
in the cardiac investigations department
in the cardiology outpatients clinic
in the patient health information library
They started to use the tilt table leaflet as a patient information leaflet that is sent to all patients on waiting list for tilt table
The leaflet 'patient activity and exercise advice for patients with an ICD' were distributed to the cardiac rehab team
The leaflets CRT/ Pacemaker information and ICD/CRT patient information were distributed to the heart failure clinic team
On the Wednesday of arrhythmia week Shirley Clynick had a fund raising cake sale of home baked cakes and raised £55!
Dr Andrew Mitchell and his team at Jersey Hospital had an Arrhythmia Alliance stand in their waiting room, which received a lot of interest.
St George's Hospital had a stand during the Arrhythmia Awareness Week. Courtesy of Edward Cajilog, BHF Arrhythmia Nurse
From Kim Bennet, Resuscitation Officer, Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Tru
Events
Below are some events that took place for Arrhythmia Awareness Week. If you have any photographs or would like to write anything about your event for the website, please contact Laura
“This photo is of the display that we did at our local Health Centre in Coatbridge, where most of the District Nurses and their students showed great interest in all the literature, and they all took a selection of the information leaflets away with them. They were all asking about the AA as most of them did not know about it or about STARS. We also had posters and leaflets in the local chemists, the library, the Arts Centres and I even put a display in the Reception at the holiday park where we have our static caravan in Dunoon”
Jane Mackay
These photos were taken at St Helier’s hospital where the cardiology team held an event for Arrhythmia Awareness Week 2007
Tracey Garde, Matron at Royal Bolton Hospital promoted Arrhythmia Awareness week at their ICD support group meeting and within the hospital.
STARS members Julie and Andrew Fear held a stand promoting Arrhythmia Awareness Week and were supported by their daughter Naomi who made some wonderful heart cakes to help raise funds. Julie's mother and father also helped so it was a family affair! Andrew, who is also a Trustee of STARS, presented to 50 members on the work of the charity and Julie put together packs to give out to GPs in the area.
7 members of the Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association (GUCH PA) walked along Hadrian’s Wall to raise awareness of arrhythmias. Between them walked over 500 miles, with 3 completing the entire walk, 2 having to leave for other commitments (though one came back and did 70 miles in total), all did over 50 miles and there were no major problems. The walk was stunningly beautiful, even when walking in 3 days of met office weather warnings and when we did need to use our plans (because someone's feet were tired they worked like a treat).
Nicky Margerison ran a stand to raise awareness at Harefield Hospital.
Margaret Bird ran a stand to raise awareness at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral
The Dudley Group of Health Libraries did a fantastic job in promoting arrhythmia awareness week.
The idea of promoting Arrhythmia Alliance’s (AA) Arrhythmia Awareness Week at Dudley Health Libraries arose out of a wider strategy to make evidence based electronic information resources more widely known to and used by our respective readerships. These include NHS staff and students in both the acute and primary care settings. The Specialist Libraries (SLs) available through the National Library for Health are a major subject of these, but we look to calendar based events to schedule individual promotional campaigns. Such events can be held close to or around a national conference in the topic. Another tactic is to associate them with the SLs’ National Knowledge Weeks. In the case of the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library (CVDSL), its partnership with AA meant that the AAW was the obvious analogous choice.
Hannah Whitman and her mother Alexandra (both members of STARS) held an event at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and an event at Salisbury District Hospital at Odstock, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Hannah has suffered RAS since aged 7. She is now 10. She is keen to help promote awareness and understanding of the condition for the benefit of other RAS sufferers and has written her own case study for the STARS Education website, so this is now available on line.
Karen Wilson, Acting Lead Cardiology Nurse, held a stand at Peterborough Hospital throughout Arrhythmia Awareness Week
Sam Shunmoogum , ICD support Group Leader, held a display at the Milton Keynes Community Cardiac Group.
A raffle was held from prizes donated by members of both groups and raised £145.The monies was shared equally between the AA and Milton Keynes Community Cardiac Group.
Two promotional packs were delivered to two GP practices locally.
Toni De Freitas, the Cardiac Improvement Manager of the Sussex Heart Network, held this event at the Conquest Hospital. See press coverage
Ellen Berry, BHF Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist from Nottingham University Hospital held a promotional stand at the hospital in support of the Arrhythmia Awareness Week. Anne Jolly from SADS UK supported Ellen and donated five top-of-the-range cardiac memo devices for use at the hospital. See press coverage
The University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire had 3 stands around the hospital
in the cardiac investigations department
in the cardiology outpatients clinic
in the patient health information library
They started to use the tilt table leaflet as a patient information leaflet that is sent to all patients on waiting list for tilt table
The leaflet 'patient activity and exercise advice for patients with an ICD' were distributed to the cardiac rehab team
The leaflets CRT/ Pacemaker information and ICD/CRT patient information were distributed to the heart failure clinic team
On the Wednesday of arrhythmia week Shirley Clynick had a fund raising cake sale of home baked cakes and raised £55!
Dr Andrew Mitchell and his team at Jersey Hospital had an Arrhythmia Alliance stand in their waiting room, which received a lot of interest.
St George's Hospital had a stand during the Arrhythmia Awareness Week. Courtesy of Edward Cajilog, BHF Arrhythmia Nurse
From Kim Bennet, Resuscitation Officer, Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust:
“May I just say how much we enjoyed participating in Arrhythmia Awareness week here in Colchester.
We had a display in the main entrance of the hospital which attracted a good deal of interest boosted perhaps by the offer of a free pulse check for anyone requesting it from myself or some of the Cardiac nurses who 'manned' the stand. In fact, we referred 4 people to their GP's as we felt they had a rhythm disturbance and counselled several others with a variety of cardiac problems of their own or within their family.
Along side this we ran a competition which had a couple of hundred entries to 'get with the beat' - name your favourite song with heart or beat or rhythm in the title and offered some small prizes to those drawn out. I was serenaded a couple of times by people (it was just like X Factor!) as they tried to get to the title of the song they were thinking of.
We gave away most of the information you sent us and I've distributed the rest to the relevant departments. “
