The family of Tracey Webb, a woman who suffered life-changing injuries in a road traffic accident, has donated more than £5,000 to the N&N Hospitals Charity for the unit where she was treated. Folk Features reports
Great-grandmother Tracey Webb was a passenger in a car travelling along the A47 in Norfolk last September when she sustained severe hand injuries and was taken by ambulance to NNUH. The main artery in Tracey’s wrist was severed in the crash, but the trauma team was able to save her hand with metal rods and plates inserted into her arm. She was treated at the Norfolk and Norwich Orthopaedic Centre (NaNOC) which opened last summer.
Tracey’s son John and his partner Jade and daughter Lisa and partner Paddy together run Fendicks Fishery near Thetford and the onsite Hubbles restaurant and Rondo’s bar, raising £5,246 for the NaNOC.
Tracey said: “I am so grateful to the Trauma Orthopaedic Consultants Christopher Ingham and Ken Wong who were able to save my hand. I can’t work anymore and I can’t lift my great granddaughters up but I’m having physio every week and I am so thankful for everything the team have done. My granddaughter was also in the car and suffered bruising from the seatbelt, but it could have been so much worse.”
Lisa said: “We are so grateful to all our customers and supporters at Fendick’s Fishery and Hubbles who have donated, bought tickets, attended events, shaved heads and so many other things to help raise the money. Everyone knows mum as she worked with us, so people were so generous in their support and I would like to thank every single person who helped us to raise so much.”
The NaNOC was created as a patient-centred unit, developed with its own facilities including a same-day admissions unit, treatment rooms, two laminar flow theatres, Post Anaesthetics Care Unit, a 21-bedded ward, physiotherapy rooms and a pharmacy and dispensing room.
Some of the most up-to-date surgical equipment has been provided by the N&N Hospitals Charity which supported the build with a £2m grant – the biggest single grant in its history.
If you would like to support the N&N Hospitals Charity or find out more information about the work of the charity, email charity@nnuh.nhs.uk
Featured image: Lisa, left, Tracey, centre, and Jade, right, present the cheque to the NaNOC team – supplied
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