Nightingale Trust for Nutrional Support

May we introduce ourselves? We are a Trust named after Florence Nightingale who first drew attention to malnutrition during the Crimean war. In some respects not a lot has changed. This is despite the great advances in medical care that keep people alive, who would previously have died. Like all advanced techniques it requires special training which sadly is not always available

Many illnesses result in malnutrition and the need for artificial nutritional support. These include: Strokes, Head injuries, Motor Neuron disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancers, Crohn’s disease, Abdominal Trauma. Children may be born with a malfunction or develop diseases that cause malnutrition.

Our aim is to assist with funding, so that hospitals nationally, will have trained nurses to carry out the complex, specialist nutritional support procedures required.

After a visit to Selly Oaks Military hospital and discussions with the nurses, it became clear that any help with basic and advanced training in artificial nutrition, would be gratefully appreciated, due to more severe injuries being suffered from the increasing sophistication of the I.E.D.’s These nurses were quickly included with NHS staff in the Trusts next training courses. More courses are to follow.

The task is enormous. Please help us by attending a fund raising function or holding a coffee morning or other event with your friends.

We appreciate all the help that given. All (100%) of money raised goes directly to the work of the Trust. We are all volunteers.

Please contact us: info@nightingaletrust.co.uk