Recycling walking aids can help our hospital to decarbonise and make our services more sustainable. ♻️

Our Walking Aids Recycling Scheme aims to reduce waste by preventing walking aids being disposed of in landfill sites.

Here are more details: 🔗 velindre.nhs.wales/velindrecc/ser…

🥇 Sarah Bull, a Clinical Psychology and Counselling specialist at Velindre Cancer Centre, has been presented with a British Empire Medal (BEM) by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Mid Glamorgan Peter Vaughan.

Congratulations, Sarah!

Read more: 📰🔗 velindre.nhs.wales/news/latest-ne…

🏠 Maggie's Cardiff are hosting a new prehabilitation session every Wednesday morning at 10am to help optimise patients' personal, physical and emotional wellbeing before starting treatment.

For more information:
☎️ 029 2240 8024
📧 [email protected]

⏰ Only 1 week left to submit your entry for the #NHSWalesAwards2024 .

🎉 Share your #Improvement story and celebrate your success today!

👉 Enter at nhsawards.wales

🗓️ Entries close 5pm, 3 May.

💚 Congratulations to our teams and individuals who have been nominated for this year’s Moondance Cancer Awards!

We’re proud to have a number of nominations for these awards which celebrate brilliant people who deliver, lead, and innovate.

Read more: 🔗 velindre.nhs.wales/news/latest-ne…

🎥 WATCH Kath, a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Cancer Centre, discuss the support on offer for patients who are living with a stoma as a result of a colostomy or an ileostomy.

No longer need your walking stick, Zimmer frame or crutches? ♻️

Please visit ‘Y Sied’ to recycle these by and return your walking aids to Velindre.

With your help, we can save vital resources and lower our impact on the environment.

Find out more: 🔗 velindre.nhs.wales/velindrecc/ser…

👏 Congratulations!

Prof. Mark Taubert, Seema Arif, Professor Peter Groves and Andrew Westwell 🇪🇺 🇬🇧, have been elected as a Fellow of Learned Society of Wales for their contribution to medicine in Wales.

Read more:
🔗 velindre.nhs.wales/news/latest-ne…

London Marathon 2024 ✅ and £700 raised for Velindre Cancer Centre 🥰 jamiee gittins jadewakley TCS London Marathon link still live if you’d still like to donate: justgiving.com/page/jude-russ…

Please please join up and get your friends in as well. Great day out and raising money for two fantastic charities

🌟 Congratulations to Kailash Films and Channel 4 on the award for their powerful documentary following Rhod Gilbert’s journey with cancer.

If you haven’t watched it yet, you can still catch up below.

🔗 channel4.com/programmes/rho…

🤔 Do you know your colostomy from your ileostomy?

📅 As April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, we caught up with Kath, one of our Clinical Nurse Specialists, to find out about stomas, colostomies, ileostomies as well as the support we offer here at Velindre.

Watch below 👇

We publish our Wall of Thanks once a month to show our staff the messages of support from patients. 💙

Take a look at some of the most recent messages we’ve received. 📬

Do you want to say something special to our staff? Comment below! 👇

📢 We want your views!

Our Complementary Therapies Service is here to support you during your time here and is fully funded by Velindre Fundraising. Please take a few moments to complete a short survey and let us know what you think of its offering.

🔗 secure.membra.co.uk/ExperienceVUNH…

✨ Eid Mubrarak to all those celebrating the end of Ramadan.

We hope our staff, patients and the wider Muslim community have a blessed day!

💚 Huge thanks to the staff and patrons of the Toby Carvery Whitchurch who very kindly donated 60 Easter Eggs for our staff and patients this week.

Our patients and staff’s faces lit up when they saw the chocolate! 😊