We are proud to be supporting two amazing charities;

 

The Myton Hospice & Libby Mae's Little Angels

 

                                           

 

 

The Myton Hospice

 

“The Myton Hospices believe everyone in Coventry and Warwickshire should live well towards the end of their life and have the right to a good, natural death, the way they want it to be and with their loved ones supported.

 

The Myton team provide high quality, specialist care to people whose condition no longer responds to curative treatment, from diagnosis to death. We aim to meet their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs and ensure their families are supported both through and after this difficult time. We are also committed to training, supporting and encouraging other care providers to practise good palliative care.”

 

At The Myton Hospices we believe that everyone matters for every single moment of their life, we focus on enhancing life when cure is no longer an option; supporting people living with a terminal illness, and their families, from the point of diagnosis to end of life.

 

We are leaders in compassionate end of life care; our work centres on patient wellbeing and involving them in decisions about their care. Perhaps most importantly we give our patients more quality time with their loved ones.   

 

We have to raise £9.1 million this year to continue providing our care. We can’t do it without people like you.

 

Last year, despite the challenges of Covid-19, which limited our ability to offer some of our services, we still supported 1,500 people and their families, in our hospices, via our patient & family support services, and in the community through Myton at Home.

 

 

Libby Mae's Little Angels

 

Libby‛s Story

 

“Libby Mae Sharratt was born on 26/04/2013 at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Following her birth by C-Section she experienced difficulty with her breathing and was transferred directly to the Neo-Natal Unit, where she was placed on 100% Intensive Care. Over the next few days Libby had several tests and scans which revealed she had a heart condition, her medication and treatment were changed accordingly, and her overall condition seemed to improve; she woke up, we were able to hold her, got to see her beautiful eyes and feel her grip our fingers.  

 

On 02/05/2013 Libby was transferred to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit where she had further scans where they found that the vein from her heart to her left lung had not developed and advised that she would never be able to breathe for herself and that there was nothing they could do to save her.”

 

This charity supports the necessary medical equipment need to look after babies on neonatal units across the Midlands. These range from ventilators to support their breathing, incubators to keep them warm, through to infusion pumps for fluids and monitors. They have sponsored one of the intensive care  rooms in Birmingham Women’s Hospital where  Libby received her care. they have also donated significantly  towards the purchase of a transport incubator because they recognized the importance of the transport service which transported Libby to PICU and currently transports more than 1000 babies in the West Midlands annually. Their aim is to lend their support to all the neonatal units in the Midlands.

 

Vishna Rasiah – Consultant Neonatologist – Cardiac Lead

Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

South West Midlands Maternity and New Born Network Lead

 

The charity have renovated parent accommodation rooms to make the rooms more homely and a lot less clinical. These rooms are used to help keep parents close to their sick babies, used for transitional care and are also sadly used for end of life care. It's important that if you can not take your baby home, to have somewhere homely and comfortable to spend time with your precious one.

 

We have brought comfortable chairs for units and for breast feeding and bought lots of new breast feeding pumps. 

 

We provide gifts for Moms on Mother's Day and for parents and babies at Christmas and deliver these to the units. 

 

We've launched the Libby Mae Memory Boxes which are given to parents who suffer a neonatal bereavement.