Each year the FVCA sponsors a charity.

 

For 2008 we have chosen the South Hams Hospital League of Friends. This is a hugely relevant charity to everyone who lives in or visits the South Hams.

 

Two quotes from the hospital website say it all:

Many of the facilities available to patients, for example chairs and trolleys, as well as medical equipment have been provided by the generosity of local people through the South Hams Hospital League of Friends. The League also funded an extensive upgrade of the hospital in 1997

 

A South Devon hospital will hold an official re-opening ceremony this week (June 2007), following a refurbishment programme of well over half a million pounds, improving infection control and patient care.

The revamp, which has been made possible by South Hams Hospital’s League of Friends, has been ongoing since last autumn, and has seen vast improvements made to the hospital’s Minor Injury Unit (MIU), as well as to the main ward.

Janet Warner, locality manager at South Hams Hospital, run by Devon Primary Care Trust, said: “T he building work has resulted in a fabulous new clinical environment which will provide much improved facilities for our patients.