Social action; Sue Ryder

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Nettlebed

Sue Ryder videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJ1vWZisjU

Sue Ryder - Nettlebed Hospice, Henley-on-Thames, provides one or two week inpatient stays for patients needing the help of a multidisciplinary team to address complex symptom management problems

Why there was a need for an action video (look at the background of why the piece was needed)

What was the action video trying to get across?

Is it for local, national or global change?

Sue Ryder is for local change as it brings the community together.

Is it to change attitudes or raise awareness - how does it do this?

Sue Ryder raises more awareness than it does attitudes changing as:

They host a local charity sale once every two months. All the staffs are volunteers and help out selling the clothes, preparing the stalls and selling. Sue Ryder doesn’t necessarily change attitudes of others; it further helps raise awareness of the matter.

It raises awareness through various videos on youtube of hosted events: The sue Ryder website provides masses of information on how to participate in local events as well as how to donate towards the charity. The Nettlebed Sue Ryder sales is also advertised on posters all around HOT and Nettlebed way. Also in local standards and Henley magazines.

To change stereotypes / representations of groups?

To strengthen a community?

Sue Ryder strengthens a community by hosting several events every other month. This charity is a based all over the UK. The money they make from this charity goes to the staff to hire professional s

Provide information?

The website provides various bit of information including what the camp is about, location of the camp, what kind of people go there, what people

Is it a campaign?

Does it want to build relationships?

Who is being interviewed and why?

We have 14 care center’s across the UK, providing compassionate care and support for people with palliative, long-term and end of life needs

Nettlebed

We provide specialist palliative care services, aiming to help people live as well as possible with the effects of their illness by offering care, symptom management and support by a team of health care professionals.

Services available;

- Community clinical nurse specialist- Complementary therapy’s - Day care therapy

Our aim is to contribute to the improvement of palliative care services at Nettlebed by providing a 'patient and carer perspective'.

We work towards

improving patient/carers' experiences of existing services enhancing the standards of treatment and care the development of new services improving patient information and communication celebrating good practice raising awareness of local issues to acorns

What we are not

We are not a support group.

We are not a fast-track complaints system, although we will be able to put you in touch with someone who may be able to help.

Who are we?

We are a group of patients, carers and health and social care professionals.

How you could help

come along to one of our meetings

help us identify what's important to patients and carers comment on topics we're currently discussing by email, post or in person give us your thoughts on how to gather more patient and carer views

What we have achieved so far

We've contributed to the publication of new patient information leaflets.

We've been involved in the creation of a memory garden, to be located within the grounds of Duchess of Kent House.

We've provided advice to health and social care professionals about specific issues (at their request).

We've identified the need for, and influenced, the provision of computers for patients' use at Duchess of Kent House.

What's expected of you?

You don't have to make any long-term commitment to the group.

So, why not come along to a meeting and see what we discuss? We'd be delighted to meet you. Rest assured there's no obligation to join if you felt it wasn’t right for you.

Our missionAt Sue Ryder we're passionate about giving people the care they want.

That is why we...

push the boundaries do the right thing make our future together

Some people believe that once you have a life-changing illness, there's little left.

We don't.

We believe it's the beginning of a new stage of life. A challenging one, true.

Our care is personal We start with the person as an individual with their strengths, characteristics, preferences and aspirations. Then we help them to be at the centre of the process of identifying their needs. We do this, so they're enabled to make choices about how and when they're supported to live their lives.

We are localWe're in local communities across the country. We're concentrating our resources so we can find innovative ways to support people. Offering them choices about where they can receive their care. This can be in our residential centres, day centres or day clinics, in the community or in people's own homes.

We're also joining up our community of supporters, shops and volunteers to make our presence stronger than its ever been before.

Volunteers videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j8zehj8z6e4