PFK's Appeal for Birmingham Hospitals

Property for Kids needs your help to raise funds for supplies to support the health and wellbeing of the magnificent NHS staff working on the frontline in our region’s hospitals.

Due to infection control reasons, families are unable to visit patients and provide comfort. Patients, relatives and staff alike, are all struggling with the absence of normal, expected interaction of families. We’re proud to announce that we will be donating a consignment of tablets, along with Microsoft UK, to allow ITU and terminally ill patients to communicate with their families in these most difficult, distressing times. 

Our committee member, Dan Gallagher, has seen the direct impact Covid-19 has had on the NHS and the strain it has caused on vital services, as his wife Emma is head of the Respiratory Ward at a Birmingham-based hospital. 

Emma, her team, and thousands more like them have been working around the clock to provide care for those who need it. We’ve teamed up with University Hospitals Birmingham Charity to identify the best way of offering support to NHS staff in our region.

We know that ‘comfort packs’ containing even the most simple items - tea, coffee, hand cream, shampoo - will make a huge difference to the health and wellbeing of NHS staff at this time. They need good quality meals which cannot always be provided in hospital canteens. And we want to fund recliner chairs for staff rooms, microwaves, kettles and other essential items, none of which are provided through core NHS funding. 

Already there are 20,000 staff to cater for in our region and University Hospitals Birmingham Charity urgently needs financial support to provide items for everyone. 

Our magnificent NHS is making an incredible sacrifice for us. It would mean so much to staff to know that we’re doing all we can to help them.

Thank you for your support.

ITU at Heartlands after the first food parcel delivery