Presentation of cheque for £2000
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Presentation of cheque for £2000 to Sheila Thompson of Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland in Penrith. The hospice provides nursing care and support to ill patients, their family and carers in their homes free of charge.. It covers an area of 1500 square miles of North and East Cumbria including Carlisle.
John Pickering and Partners LLP are pleased to support the valuable service provided by Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland. Here Neil Fisher is seen presenting a cheque for £2,000 to Sheila Thompson of the Hospice.
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland (Hospice at Home) is the local Charity providing nursing care at home to the terminally ill and supporting their carers. Established in 1997 the service has cared for over 3,000 patients in an area from Kirkby Stephen in the south up to the Scottish Borders and from Alston in the East to Silloth on the west coast. There are only 15 independent Hospice at Home charities in the whole of England. Cumbria is lucky enough to have two such services with Hospice at Home West Cumbria covering the west of the county.
Home is such a special place for all of us and by providing this essential service, Hospice at Home enables people to choose not only to die at home, but importantly also to continue to live at home during their terminal illness. All care is provided free of charge and as far as possible is tailored to the individual needs of the patient and their carer. Hospice at Home is able to offer nursing and emotional support to individuals, their relatives and carers, bereavement support including both pre and post bereavement and complementary therapies for the individual and their relative or carer. In addition Hospice at Home also manages the specialist services of lymphoedema and occupational therapy. Unusually, Hospice at Home cares for patients with any terminal illness and not just cancer. Around 20% of patients suffer from other illnesses such as motor neurone disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart disease. The majority of patients are referred to the service by their GP or a District Nurse, however, the patient or their family can also refer by contacting the Nursing Service on 01228 603208.
In order to maintain the service the Charity Team works to raise the money required to run the service. A grant is received from the Primary Care Trust which covers approximately 22% of the costs and the remainder of £9,500 per week has to be raised from the local community. Throughout the year a full programme of events are organised and it you would like to hear more about this work, please call 01768 210719 or go to www.hospiceathome.co.uk If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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We are a dedicated personal injury law firm who do not do other types of work. We specialise in claiming damages for asbestos sufferers. We have been handling compensation claims for industrial disease for over 30 years. Most of our work involves acting for asbestos disease victims who suffer from mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis and pleural thickening. We only act for the sufferers of asbestos diseases and never act for the organisations that caused the asbestos exposure or their insurers. We have an ethical approach and donate 10% of our net profits every year to good causes that help asbestos sufferers. We have set up a charitable trust to help to fund medical research into mesothelioma and various organisations that help and support asbestos sufferers and their families.
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John Pickering and Partners LLP is a niche legal practice that has represented Claimants in the leading asbestos "test cases" in the last ten years. The firm represented Sylvia Barker in Barker v Corus (UK) Plc, a case that highlighted the legal tactics of employers and insurers trying to cut back their compensation liabilities to mesothelioma sufferers, and which prompted the amendment of the Compensation Act 2006 to ensure full compensation for mesothelioma claims. The firm represented two of the three Claimants in the landmark Fairchild appeal, in which the insurance industry tried unsuccessfully to block compensation altogether for mesothelioma sufferers unable to identify which of two or more sources of asbestos exposure had caused their illness.
The firm represented Alice Jefferson, a mesothelioma sufferer, whose illness and compensation claim against Cape Asbestos were featured in the important documentary "Alice: A Fight For Life." Shown by Yorkshire Television in July 1982, the programme was an important catalyst for legal change and public awareness of the plight of mesothelioma and other asbestos disease sufferers and a prompt for important legal reform.
Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects the lining of certain bodily organs. It most commonly affects the lining of the lungs (the pleura) but it can affect other areas including organs in the abdominal cavity (the peritoneum).
More than 2,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma every year in the UK and there is one mesothelioma death every five hours. The number of deaths from mesothelioma increased from 153 in 1968 to 1,969 in 2004 and is expected to peak at 2,450 between 2011 and 2015.
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