Our Chairman, Jim Kilpatrick, was delighted to meet some very excited young pupils from Moneyrea Primary School and Nursery this morning and to receive a cheque from them for £700.00. Thanks go to all the children, parents and staff for their generosity. Pictured with the pupils are Roy Greer (Principal) and Christine Floyd (whose husband, Cecil, is a liver transplant patient.
Members of the RVHLSG Committee donned their Santa costumes as they delivered what is now the customary Christmas gifts to the children and adult inpatients in the RVH.
The RVH Liver Support Group organised another coffee event, this time in Omagh and Enniskillen on Dec 4th. It was successful and everyone who attended appreciated being able to meet other patients and have a chat around their experiences. Further events just like this are being planned and we will let you know on the home page.
This is a question that we now get asked in clinic; where can I get more information, online, in relation to the condition that I have just been diagnosed with. The British Liver Trust has an extensive array of publications available to read online or download from their website for all liver conditions. We have provided the link below to help you to access this information. Please feel free to make use of this and also to download the document to your computer or smart device so that you can read at another time.
This year’s Family Fun Day was another great success thanks both to Rachel and Patricia, committee members, and all of many families and friends who made the event. We just love to see so many families with their children coming along to have some great fun as well as having conversations with other families. We think the bowling was a great choice too!!
St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin celebrated its Liver Transplant 30th Anniversary with a Patient Education Day in O’Reilly Hall, UCD, Belfield, Dublin on October 14th . There were a number of practical talks on living with a liver transplant with recent updates in the field of transplantation in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the National Liver Transplant Programme. The day started with an introduction given by Mr Justin Geoghegan, Consultant Transplant Surgeon with further insights into the last thirty years of transplantation by Prof Oscar Traynor and Prof Aiden McCormick.
Kay Duffy, OBE, and founder of the Liver Support Group was invited down to the event to give an insight in to the support network provided by the Group within Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland does not have a similar network and therefore patients with any type of liver condition cannot avail of the wide number of services provided to patients in NI.
Kay Duffy, Founder, Arthur Goan, Vice Chairman, Dr Sharon Millen, Head of Research and Rachel Quinney Mee, Child & Adolescent Patient Carer representing the RVH Liver Support Group attended.