Summer 2019

Complementary Therapy Blog – Summer 2019

Complementary Therapy Blog Summer 2019   A Huge Welcome to Yui May Cheung who is based at Salford, she will be aiming to get in on Wednesday mornings to do therapies for the dialysis patients. Welcome back Kathyrn who is a returning therapist at Wigan. Kathryn will be going into Wigan Dialysis Unit on Thursday[…]

Blog July 2018

Complementary Therapy Blog July 2018

BLOG July 2018 We celebrated a lovely day with the nursing staff for Nurses Day on May 11th and had therapists in Salford, Wigan, Bolton and Oldham carrying out therapies for our wonderful hardworking dedicated staff. The feedback from the staff was wonderful and they thoroughly enjoyed their day of celebrations.       ———————————————-****—————————————————-[…]

Complementary Therapy: World Kidney Day blog

I am the Complementary Therapy Practitioner for the Renal services within the North West. Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust operates dialysis units in Salford, Wigan, Bolton, Oldham and Rochdale. On World Kidney Day, we will be around in the Hope Building to demonstrate our treatments and talk about the complementary therapy programme. This project commenced[…]

HKPA and Salford Royal Renal Department is hosting a Carers’ Day

Carers’ Day Hi Everyone, Did you know that it is estimated over 6 ½ million people act as Carers in the UK?  We know that kidney patients often require extra support and care at various stages in their journey and Carers can be the unsung heroes behind conditions like this. Keith as the Chair of[…]

Complementary Therapy Blog, December 2017

Complementary Therapy Blog, December 2017 Hi Everyone, I hope you are all keeping well and wrapped up nice and warm.  We have had a number of really wintry, snappy weather over the past couple of weeks so it’s essential you take extra care of yourself. We are coming to the end of our second year[…]

Complementary Therapy Blog: April-June 2017

Hi everyone, I attended in April the National Kidney Federation (NKF) KPA Day/AGM in Birmingham. We showcased the service to representatives of KPAs across the country and I gave a presentation on the service and its progress. I was so nervous when doing my presentation but I must have done ok as this led to[…]

Complementary Therapy Blog: March 2017

Complementary Therapy Blog: March 2017 We have been on a huge adventure recently. Our recruitment drive took us to do a presentation at Wigan and Leigh College at the Image Centre in Leigh where we had been invited by their Tutor Miranda McFarlane.  We met a  lovely group of students who were studying Complementary Therapies[…]

Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering Opportunities Engaging with health conditions and volunteering is a great way to develop skills, learn, and to give something back. As a department, we want to offer as many volunteering opportunities as we can to patients as well as their relatives and friends. I wanted to give you a quick reminder of the existing[…]

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