Archive for March 2016
Leicester host their first support group
On Monday the Keeping Abreast team visited Leicester to help support them at their very first group meeting. After months of hard work from the Breast Care Nursing Team, it was fantastic to welcome over 20 people to the Helen Webb House, which included current patients, volunteers and surgeons. The evening began with an introduction…
Read MoreNorwich present cheque to NNUH
Keeping Abreast Norwich Committee members are delighted to be funding the training of Nurse Britta Andersen in the art of Micropigmentation (medical tattooing). The photo shows Jane Crockett, Secretary of KA Norwich presenting Britta with the cheque along with Sister Jane Knights and Ruth Harcourt, Breast Reconstruction Nurse Specialist, in the Plastic Surgery Outpatients Department…
Read MoreBooby Cupcake Week Norwich sold like hot cakes!
The Norwich group have held a hugely successful cupcake stand at NNUH- and they seem to have been sold even quicker than last year! Well done and sincere thanks to all the supporters who have generously made so many tasty treats, all arranged by Jane Crockett – Thanks Jane, Christine, Norma and Carol. We raised…
Read MoreReflecting on KAPE 2015
As we are coming to the end of 2015, we can look back on a hugely successful exhibition tour which allowed the charity to engage with both the medical establishments and a wide range of general public across each location. We originally set out for a launch at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in…
Read MoreWe have even hit the Daily Mail on Line!
Well done Tina, Ros & Sue… Wow the word is spreading… Keeping Abreast, Julia Holland (our photographer) & Keeping Abreast South West – Breast Reconstruction Support Group http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3293350/Bearing-battle-scars-brave-breast-cancer-survivors-revealing-bodies-raise-funds-charity.html
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