Stroke patients helped by donation from Stockley Park
Stroke patients are benefiting from the generosity of a local business park.
The management company of Stockley Park, close to Heathrow Airport, donated £3,000 to our Stroke Unit at Hillingdon. The team there spent it on aids and equipment for the rehabilitation room.
Above: a patient uses a device to improve grip and manual dexterity. The roller sticks hard to the Velcrow on the wooden block and needs strength to move it
A wide selection of therapeutic aids – brightly coloured, highly tactile equipment, and devices to improve manual dexterity, motor skills recovery and to aid in cognitive impairment rehabilitation – are now stored neatly on shelves and in cabinets.
Speech and Language Therapists who work alongside their physiotherapist and occupational therapist colleagues in the unit were not overlooked, and selected, among other things, more supplies for their high-tech machine which can provide patients unable to eat solid foods with a safe way to enjoy a variety of flavours, by dispensing an edible foam.
Above: Claire Watson of Stockley Park with Speech and Language Therapist Amelia Harwood
Debbie Nielsen, a highly specialist neurorehabilitation physiotherapist, said the donation meant a lot to staff and patients. She said: “We are ever so grateful for this donation from Claire and her team at Stockley Park Estates; it has already had such an impact on our team and the service we are able to deliver for our patients.
“We made the money stretch as far as we could as we rarely receive donations and we were able to get lots of small, upper limb equipment, as well as a muscle stimulator which will really help our patients with their stroke recovery'
Hillingdon Hospital is such a special place with staff who are caring and strive for the best for their patients
Claire Watson, lifestyle manager at Stockley Park, said: “Hillingdon Hospital is such a special place with staff who are caring and strive for the best for their patients.
“Stockley Park Estates Company Ltd is thankful to be able to assist the community where we can. I am delighted the equipment we donated is already in use to the benefit of the patients and hope we can help again in the future.”