Supporting Neurosciences and Neurology in Sheffield
Three local Sheffield sisters have just completed a mammoth challenge to raise funds to support neurological patients in Sheffield, in honour of their Dad. When Greg Thomas fell ill at the end of 2020, his three daughters, Chloe, Kayleigh and Natalie decided to do their bit to raise money for the neurology team who have [...]
As part of Sheffield Hospitals Charity, we're committed to standing with our neuroscience colleagues at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - that is true at all times, but over the past year, and with the challenges that have been faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for us to do that has been even [...]
University of Sheffield researchers have been looking at new ways to track the effects of motor neurone disease (MND) on the body. Researchers from Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) used an advanced imaging technique called 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy, to measure chemicals that are crucial to energy metabolism in the cell. Researchers are able [...]
As part of Neurocare November, we're highlighting just some of the amazing NHS staff who care for patients with a range of neurological conditions in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ neuroscience departments. Last time, Emma Foster told us her story of working as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Progressive Ataxias, which you can read here. This [...]
As part of Neurocare November, we want to highlight just some of the incredible NHS staff who care for patients with a range of neurological conditions in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ neuroscience departments. First up is Emma Foster, a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Progressive Ataxias at the Sheffield Ataxia Centre, who has worked in her [...]
Professor Marios Hadjivassiliou, a Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, is taking part in this year’s Walk for Wards to support neurology patients at a time of real need. Marios will be raising funds with his family by taking on a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ walk – which will see the trio walking in both [...]
To our supporters, As a charity, like you and the rest of our community, we trying to adapt to the current government advice regarding the outbreak of Covid-19. These are unprecedented times for all of us and so we are working hard to ensure that everything we do protects our staff, our supporters and the [...]
Dan Healy is taking on the Sheffield Half Marathon to raise funds for Neurocare - the brain injury charity that supports the Neurology Department which saved his life ten years ago. Dan was just 19 when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident and suffered bleeding on his brain requiring neurological surgery, twice. [...]
Derbyshire GP Tom Adler is going to extremes to raise money for brain injury charity Neurocare. The super fit doctor will be one of just 40 competitors taking on the gruelling, 230km Arctic Circle Ice Ultra Challenge in aid of the Sheffield-based charity which supports the work of the city’s neurology and neurosciences departments. Experienced [...]
Chris Bexon, aged 52 from Hoylandswaine, was diagnosed with a three inch meningioma tumour in his brain in 2016 followed by thyroid cancer in his neck just months later. The tumour located in Chris’s skull had been growing for up to ten years and had re-shaped his brain, a seven and half hour craniotomy was [...]
