Welcome to Wells Community Hospital
Wells Hospital, which has just celebrated its centenary, is now owned by a Charitable Trust on behalf of the community it serves. It is registered as an independent hospital with the Care Quality Commission. more
We are situated in a great location to provide haemodialysis for any patients travelling during the London Olympics 2012 - If you are on renal dialysis and keen to know more please contact us for further information.
SAVE THESE DATES IN YOUR DIARY NOW!
Saturday 26th May Plant Lovers Day
North Creake Abbey Cost: £3.00 children free. Dogs welcome on leads
More than 20 specialist nurseries gather to display and sell magnificent plants. Meet the nurserymen, ask questions and purchase your plants at favourable prices. Find a huge range of hardy garden perennials, roses, bamboo and other grasses, alpines, vegetable plants, culinary, medicinal and aromatic herbs and rare or unusual specimens across the range.
Bring any questions or specimens to the PLANT CLINIC staffed by experts…open from 2 to 4pm only.
You can download a leaflet here and help us by printing it out and displaying it in a prominent location to help us publicise this wonderful event.
Our wonderful team of voluteers will be attending the event to sell merchandise and ask supporters to sign up to our fundraising lottery.
Sunday 27th May
Wells Community Hospital Grand Car Boot Sale
Car Boot sale
Open for stallholders at 9.00 and public at 10.00
Details from Chris Geering 01328 738946
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Tuesday 8th May Fine Dining for Charity
WI Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea
What a wonderful night full of great conversation, games, quizzes and even a song from Trustee Chris Geering! Chef Robert McNaughton’s team did themselves proud with fantastic food, a wonderful Canapé welcome reception, an open fire and the most excellent service from two lovely waitresses. We’re not sure yet what the evening raised but Robert kindly donated £100 back to the charity from the ticket sales and after raffle, merchandise and games income I think we will have made a tidy sum with with all profits in support of Wells Community Hospital Trust.
Thank you all so much for your wonderful support
If you get a chance to get tickets to future fine dining events with Robert, Joan and Janet make sure you do so as it is one of the best nights you can get in Wells.
Scira support
Very many thanks to our friends at Scira Offshore Energy for their support and encouragement. It's great to see an organisation working with the local community and Scira really do want to help and support the idea of sustainable local organisation. Thank you.
You can find out more about Scira Offshore energy and downlaod their newsletter here. www.scira.co.uk
‘Mad Hatters’ fashion sale raises thousands for Wells Community Hospital Trust and Fight for Sight
Fashion followers who bagged a bargain at the accessories sale at Burnham Overy Staithe Village Hall, Kings Lynn, on Saturday 11 February 2012, have helped to raise over £1,000 for for Wells Community Hospital Trust, and £1,000 for Fight for Sight.
A selection of ‘occasion’ hats, scarves, bags, belts, ties, and jewellery were donated by local people to help raise vital funds for the two charities.
Jane Ridley, the event’s organiser, said: “Through the generosity of our local supporters, we’ve raised over £2,000 for Fight for Sight and the Wells Community Hospital Trust - two wonderful causes whose work has a tremendous impact on the lives of countless people. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make our event such a great success.”
For those who missed out on the 11 February event, sale items are still available until March 2012. For more information, please contact Jane Ridley on janeridley@dsl.pipex.com.
News from the hospital...
Did you see the excellent articles about the Hospital in the Eastern Daily Press and Fakenham and Wells Times? Reporter Adam Lazzari gave a very balanced and authoratative view on the future plans and aspirations that the hospital has for the short and long term. You can download a PDf of them here EDP Fakenham & Wells Times
Clothing bank at the hospital Car Park
Don't forget that you can recycle your unwanted clothing anytime at the recycling bank we have at the hospital car park
Mermaid Centre
We are now open and have been busy during the summer treating our first kidney dialysis patients. Peter Cadd (our very first patient) said "This is a wonderful opportunity to visit the north Norfolk Coast. 'Thankyou' seems so little to cover the pleasure you have given to Jill and me during your first two weeks of your units operation. To talk of pleasure during dialysis is unusual, but your professional efficiency together with happy personalities achieved just that. I am already looking forward to a return visit in September." see video Opening Ceremony - Norman Lamb MP
Here is Geoff Randle, our 100th treatment, with Roberta (holding a celebratory cake) and Kathryn our nurse manager. Geoff is on his third visit to us. We have had a great summer and are hoping to be able to offer dialysis to local patients in the new year. If you would like to visit the Mermaid Centre telephone Kathryn on 01328711996.
Renal Dialysis for local patients
We are totally committed to providing dialysis treatment for those people living locally who need it and wish to be treated at Wells Community Hospital. Our Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration means we are now approved to provide this. However we do appreciate that some kidney patients living locally may wish to continue with the care they are presently receiving elsewhere.
For those interested in receiving their care closer to home, we would invite them, and their care representatives, to visit the exceptional facilities available at the Mermaid Centre and consider receiving some of their dialysis care closer to home. We will then facilitate discussions with the specialist commissioners to see how we can achieve this. So now Norfolk renal dialysis patients can excercise their patient choice and recieve dialysis locally within North Norfolk.
The Health Lottery
We will be submitting grant applications to the health lottery as soon as our local Norfolk society lottery ('health success') opens. Please register Wells Community Hospital as your concern. It will help us to become a priority and make a winning bid more likely. Click 'contact us if you want to take part'.
Do you shop on line?
Use giveasyoulive.com to get the stores where you shop to give Wells Hospital up to 5% of what you spend. Simply download a small programme onto your computer (or smart phone) and agree to make your charity Wells Community Hospital Trust.
Then shop, and the hospital gets a donation from the store. It costs you nothing! This is a part of 'easyclick' giving.