25Charitable donations and contributing to local communitiesIn 2010 Spire staff raised and donated more than £285,000 to the local communities around our hospitals and other worthy causes.. Medical supplies totalling £103,000 were given to support the relief effort in Haiti. This included everything from protective gloves to essential theatre equipment needed to perform life and limb-saving operations. The team at Spire Southampton Hospital helped Mr David Warwick, consultant orthopaedic surgeon, to fundraise when he undertook a 12,000 mile off-road motorbike ride across South Africa. £7,000 was generated for Unicef, Sentebale - The Princes' Fund for Lesotho, the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and Touch Africa, charities that help save the lives of some of the poorest people living in Africa. Spire Murrayfield Hospital (Edinburgh) provided £50,000 worth of reconstructive cosmetic surgery and a surgically implanted hearing aid to Kade Romain, an orphan from Trinidad who was born with no ears and partial hearing. Staff at Spire Bristol Hospital supported prostate cancer awareness by taking part in the 5k 'Run for the Future' and providing free PSA testing to men, totalling more than £5,000. For the past five years Pauline Nevin, out-patient team leader at Spire Cheshire Hospital, has organised an annual golf day in memory of Greta Larkings, a specialist breast nurse who died from breast cancer in 2005. All proceeds have been given to Breast Cancer Care, and in 2010 another £4,200 was donated, bringing the total five year tally to more than £25,000Education programmesSpire Healthcare makes a valuable contribution to clinical training in the UK. In 2010 we offered training placements to 269 under and postgraduate nurses and 46 pre-registration allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and operating department practitioners. In addition, a further 177 members of staff took National Vocational Qualifications and 133 completed degree modules.We operate our own internal training and development programme. This saw 5,574 candidates complete critical care courses, and staff complete a staggering 46,000 e-learning modules using our new web-enabled platform.To support the continuing professional development of doctors, Spire has four surgical research fellow positions, where postgraduate surgeons are able to hone their specialist skills by working alongside recognised experts in their fields. Our hospitals also deliver continuing development programmes for primary care staff, including GPs and practice staff, physiotherapists, optometrists and dentists, which count towards the Continuing Professional Development credits required to maintain their professional registration. For example, 674 GPs attended educational events at Spire Bushey Hospital, while at Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital a major GP education conference was attended by 109 GPs, with contributions from 26 specialist consultants.

26Spire Healthcare Annual Review 2010Corporate social responsibility continued. A team of 20 people from Spire Leicester Hospital raised £10,000 when they took part in the 26.2 mile Breast Cancer Awareness Moonwalk. 12 staff and consultants from Spire Murrayfield Hospital (Edinburgh) participated in the Caledonian Challenge, raising £8,000 by walking 56 miles in less than 24 hours. The annual charity ball at Spire Fylde Coast Hospital was attended by 400 guests from the medical and business community and generated £14,500 for health-related children's charities, including Brian House Children's Hospice, Wishing Well House, Red Rose School, The Valdete Trust, the NSPCC Acorn Centre and Blackpool Carers Centre Reputation Robina Addison, foster mother to 16-year-old Kade Romain from Trinidad, explains how the compassion and surgical skill of the cosmetic surgery team at Spire Murrayfield Hospital (Edinburgh) has helped to improve the hearing of her foster daughter."Kade was born without ears and, despite having partial hearing in one ear, she was sent to a special needs home in Trinidad, which was ill-equipped to effectively care for her. Having got to know her, I wanted to help her to get the medical care that she deserved in the UK.On referral from a fellow paediatrician, we met a leading surgeon in ear reconstruction surgery, Mr Ken Stewart, and his team at Spire Murrayfield Hospital. He explained a complex procedure in which cartilage is harvested from Kade's ribs, sculpted into ears and grafted onto her head. Once the ears are in place, a bone-anchored hearing aid fits onto a band that amplifies sound and dramatically improves hearing. Thanks to the compassion and dedication of the team who waived their fees to perform the complex surgery in their own time, Kade now is on her way to having aesthetically normal outer ears and restored hearing in both ears." Charitable donationsChris Chadwick, Hospital Director of Spire Fylde Coast Hospital, presented some of the proceeds of the £14,500 raised at the hospital's annual Charity Ball to Wishing Well House, a local charity providing music therapy for autistic children. Receiving the donation are Lucien Coulon, the inspiration behind the idea to create Wishing Well House, and his sister Nikita.