Weston Hospicecare BIG THANK YOU

Weston Hospicecare BIG THANK YOU

Weston Hospicecare wishes to say a VERY BIG THANK YOU to Wedmore and Axbridge Community Health Fund CIO and the Wedmore Friends of Weston Hospicecare for enabling us to purchase: 4 state of the art syringe drivers and an Avoset pump.

The syringe drivers will allow patients to receive medications such as pain relief, anti sickness and symptoms of gastric reflux to be delivered over 24 hours and a combination of medications.

Recently patients have required up to 3 syringe drivers running at the same time, so the demand for the syringe drivers has increased significantly and with your support has helped patients to keep their symptoms much more controlled.                                                            

The Avoset pump enables patients to just have 1 pump with a higher volume of medications and fluid (whereas 2-3 syringe drivers would be needed).

They are cheaper to run with just 2 AA batteries rather than the expensive V6 batteries which cost us approx. £4.00. 

The Avoset can run over 2-3 days  which enables the patient to go away or to have the freedom at home not to need a district Nurse to visit daily to change the syringe driver.

Many thanks to everyone for all your wonderful and ongoing support, we so appreciate everything that you do.

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