First step for HRH, visit to Nethergate School, a Special School for pupils with a broad range of complex learning difficulties. All of school's pupils have learning difficulties and many have additional needs (Autism, challenging behaviours, emotional needs, physical difficulties or speech difficulties). Pupils are grouped in classes of 8 to 12 students and follow a curriculum that meets their individual level of need. For some this may mean following a modified Secondary curriculum. Others will follow a supported class-based curriculum, while some will follow a more personalised curriculum.
Later The Countess visited the Anthony Nolan Cell Therapy Centre at Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus. Anthony Nolan is a UK charity that works in the areas of leukaemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry, and the National Blood Service ran British Bone Marrow Registry. This aligned register is known as the Anthony Nolan & NHS Stem Cell Registry. It also carries out research to help make bone marrow transplants more effective.
photo by JMS Photography courtesy of Anthony Nolan, click on pic to be redirected to press release. Her Royal Highness with Damilola Aboyeji, Laboratory Scientist at Anthony Nolan
The Anthony Nolan Trust is a UK registered charity, founded in 1974, by Shirley Nolan. Her son Anthony suffered from a life threatening congenital disease, called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome for which, at that time, the only known cure was a bone marrow transplant. In the absence of a compatible donor for her son, Shirley focused on recruiting adult volunteers prepared to donate their bone marrow.
photo by JMS Photography courtesy of Anthony Nolan, click on pic to be redirected to press release. Her Royal Highness with Dr. Susana G. Gomez, head of the Cord Blood Bank at Anthony Nolan
In 2008 Anthony Nolan set up the UK's first dedicated cord blood bank, called The Anthony Nolan Cell Therapy Centre, which was visited by The Countess today. The Cell Centre allows mothers to safely donate the blood from their umbilical cord and placenta after they give birth, the charity then use this blood in their stem cell transplants. The Centre processes and stores cord blood for national and international clinical transplantation centres. It also carries out world-class research using blood of non-clinical standard, and supplies cord blood to other approved research programmes throughout Europe. In 2012 Anthony Nolan became the first stem cell register in the world to start recruiting 16 year olds. Full info here.
photo by JMS Photography courtesy of Anthony Nolan, click on pic to be redirected to press release. Her Royal Highness with Sorrel (who had a stem cell transplant in 2007 using stem cells from umbilical cords donated in Japan) and her sister Daisy
During visit Her Royal Highness was introduced to Simon Dyson MBE, Chairman of Anthony Nolan, Professor Alejandro Madrigal, Scientific Director at Anthony Nolan, Richard Bullock OBE MA DL, Former Chairman of Nottingham Trent University, and Professor Nigel Healey, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University.
Simon Dyson MBE, Chairman of Anthony Nolan, said: “It was an honour to meet The Countess of Wessex and to show her around the Anthony Nolan Cell Therapy Centre. On behalf of all of us at Anthony Nolan, I would like to thank her for visiting us and for recognising the importance of the life-saving work by our staff at the centre and beyond. Cord blood is vital to the future of blood cancer treatment and I am sure Her Royal Highness’ visit will help to inspire us as we move into our fifth decade of saving lives.” Full press release here. If you want to know more about Anthony Nolan cord blood programme visit this link.
Her Royal Highness, met patients, staff and major charitable donors when she visited the £6.6million Centre which set a new high standard for the way patients with CF receive their treatment when it opened a year ago. Duringvisit The Countess was taken on a tour of the Centre, where she saw the gym pods, met the head chef and spoke to some of social workers. Sophie also saw the video conferencing facilities in action and met a patient in their 'home in hospital' room.
After meeting patients and staff from NUH and charitable donors, the Countess unveiled a plaque, marking the centre's official opening. Nottingham City Hospital is the host for the regional cystic fibrosis adult service, providing care for patients from across the East Midlands (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire). Dr Jane Dewar is the lead consultant and service director.
One of my pupils carries this disease. It is genetic and passed on through his parents, who carry it too. They didn't know it at first, but when they had a second baby boy, he was born with CF, and spends most of his life at a special unit of children's hospital. I don't think I have to explain how this affected the entire family. This article explains in detail what CF is.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) also known as mucoviscidosis is one of the UK's most common life-threatening inherited diseases. It affects over 8,500 people in the UK with over two million people in the UK carrying the faulty gene that causes cystic fibrosis. This is around 1 in 25 of the population.
Cystic fibrosis affects the internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus. This makes it hard to breathe and digest food. Each week, five babies are born with cystic fibrosis. Each week, three young lives are lost to cystic fibrosis. Around half of the CF population can expect to live over 38 years, although improvements in treatments mean a baby born today could expect to live even longer.
"Wolfson Cystic Fibrosis Centre was jointly funded by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and Nottingham Hospitals Charity and has been designed to care for more than 250 patients from across Nottinghamshire and the surrounding counties. This is almost twice the number of patients that could be cared for previously - with tailored care changing their lives.
The chief executive of Next, Lord Simon Wolfson and his family were so impressed by plans for the centre that they made a donation of £700,000 to Nottingham Hospitals Charity which has provided over £2.1million towards the cost of the centre. The Cystic Fibrosis Trust also contributed £400,000." Full article can be found here. Press release from NUH about the opening can be found here. Few more pictures from the visit at Cystic Fbrosis Trust Facebook. Click here.
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The Countess of Wessex undertook engagements in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
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