Marie Curie Cancer Care - 2014 Great Daffodil Appeal:

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Letter to Branches




No. 187/14
Ref P5/14
Date: 21 March 2014

To: All Branches

Dear Colleagues,

Marie Curie Cancer Care - 2014 Great Daffodil Appeal:

What is the Great Daffodil Appeal?

Every March millions of people across the UK support the Great Daffodil Appeal by simply giving a donation to wear a daffodil pin. By wearing a daffodil you’ll be helping us nurse terminally ill people in their final hours.

The CWU Health, Safety & Environment Department are pleased to be supporting the Marie Curie Cancer Care Great Daffodil Appeal again this year and seek your support.

A brief history of Marie Curie Cancer Care

The story begins in 1948, the same year the National Health Service was launched. Not long before the Hampstead-based Marie Curie Hospital was transferred to the NHS, a group of committee members from the hospital decided to preserve the name of Marie Curie in the charitable medical field. This was the beginning of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation − a charity dedicated to alleviating suffering from cancer − today known as Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The very first appeal was launched and brought in a substantial £4,000. By 1950 the ongoing appeal had raised a staggering £30,000 and two years later the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation officially became a charity - number 207994.

An extensive nationwide survey was undertaken to help identify medical, nursing and research needs in relation to cancer. The results formed the basis of the work of the Foundation and, largely, still do today.

The charity dedicated itself to:

providing specialist homes for the care of cancer patients
providing nursing for patients at home
educating the public on the symptoms and treatment of cancer
providing urgent welfare needs
At the time these ideas were quite revolutionary and the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation quickly established itself as a leader in the field of improving facilities for cancer patients.

Today Marie Curie Cancer Care:

is dedicated to providing more and better care for patients and their families through the Marie Curie Nursing Service and its nine hospices.
is committed to carrying out the research and innovation necessary to find out what the best possible care is and how best to provide it.
will ensure measures are in place to give people the choice of place for their end of life care and death through The Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme
is determined that the needs of the dying remain on the political agenda and will continue to campaign for patients to be able to die in their own homes in all four countries of the UK through its policy and public affairs work.

Much has changed since the pioneering days of 1948 but our core values have remained constant – putting patients and families first.

Request a box of daffodils and display a box in your workplace:

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A small box can make a big difference. Displaying a daffodil box in your workplace can raise much needed funds to help us continue caring for people with terminal illnesses in their place of choice. Simply follow the link and fill in the request form and Marie Curie will send you a box of daffodil pins.

Get in touch

Marie Curie is grateful for the support of Trade Unions supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care and if interested will keep you up to date from time to time with details of how your support can help care for patients and their families and will email you with information on how you can support Marie Curie and help provide vital care to terminally ill people in your local area and across the UK. If you wish to receive such information by email just let them know:-

By phone
Call free phone 0800 716 146
(Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm)

By post
Write to:
Marie Curie Cancer Care
89 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7TP
E-mail
supporter.relations@mariecurie.org.uk
A member of our team will be in touch.

2012-13 Support

The support Marie Curie received last year meant that in 2012-13 more than 38,777 people were given the choice of where and how to spend their final days. They, and Marie Curie, cannot thank you enough. But please don't stop there. Marie Curie needs to raise £10,000 every hour of every day to carry on their work. Marie Curie has 2,000 nurses in the UK and last year they worked for 1,300,000 hours caring for terminally ill patients, including half of all cancer patients who die at home. They also have nine hospices and are the biggest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS. In total, Marie Curie spends over £93 million a year on its charitable activities of providing care as well as on research and development. The figure is overwhelming, but so is the comfort that the money can provide. Please keep helping Marie Curie to help even more people.

Marie Curie vision and strategic plan

Putting patients and families first
Everyone with cancer and other illnesses to have the high quality care and support they need at the end of their life in the place of their choice.

Marie Curie key objectives over the next three years include:

Better care

Delivering the right care, in the right place, at the right time
Hospices being the hub of their communities
Always improving quality

Wider reach

Research and development to improve end of life care for everyone
Being better known and understood
Helping communities build better local care

Stronger foundations

Increasing the money raised to fund services
Growing volunteer support
Improving our efficiency and effectiveness, always demonstrating value for money

Please give your support.

Yours Sincerely

Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer