Awards and Nominations!
Our wonderful Trustee and full time nurse in PICU, Rosie Mitchell has won an award by the Daily Echo for Hospital Hero 2012! Read the article and watch Rosie receive her award here: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9525280.Unsung_stars_of_the_city___s_hospital_wards_honoured_in_prestigious_ceremony/ MTG Youth for Charity is a chance for Surrey Students to pick from a list of charities that they believe deserve a cash prize towards their charity funds. Please click on the link below and post a comment about why you think Friends of PICU deserves to be picked. Thank You http://youthforcharity.blogspot.com/2012/02/friends-of-picu-supporting-southampton.html
Other News:
Hayley and Sam Chiverton will be speaking on BBC Radio Solent on Wednesday 8th Feb at 6.40am about the 240 Miles in 24 Hours: Cycle Challenge Across the South in Memory of their daughter Grace Mae Chiverton. Please listen in! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001dpqb Also see newspaper articles about the cycle event in the New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times, The South Downs Edition of the West Sussex County Times, and the Isle of Wight County Press in the week beggining 6th Feb 2012. Coming Soon, please contact mailto:media@friendsofpicu.org.uk?subject= In a rare opportunity, TV cameras were allowed into PICU recently. As part of Meridian TV's coverage of the Safe and Sustainable review, cameras and reporters were allowed to visit the Unit. TV cameras on PICUThe Daily Echo has been a big supporter of the campaign to retain the Children's cardiac services. In an article, PICU's Dr Iain Macintosh talks about the losses that PICU will suffer. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9109394.Heart_unit_closure_threat_puts_intensive_care_unit_at_risk/ Newspaper Articles:
 
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