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List of gifts donated by the League to the Torbay Hospital

YEAR

MAIN GIFTS

VALUE

1954

Fruit bowls, picture

£12

1955

Fruit bowls, bed trays, chairs etc

£279

1956

Rosehill Children’s Hospital Playroom

£1,039

1957

Cubicle curtains

£1,905

1958

101 Ward Lockers

£2,913

1959

Lockers – telephone trolleys, cubicle curtains

£2,168

1960

Lockers, TV rentals, special book

£964

1961

Children’s ward playroom

£1,430

1962

Bedside chairs, chest clinic furniture

£1,215

1963

Dayroom, Simpson Ward

£2,769

1964

Outpatients accommodation, ward chairs Warrington Ward dayroom

£7,120

1965

Warrington Ward Furnishings, wheelchairs, chairs and lockers for annexe

£1,608

1966

Chairs for smaller hospitals, lockers, tea/coffee vending machine

£2,102

1967

Intensive Care Unit – cubicle curtains donation provision Medical Centre

£10,689

1968

Cubicle curtains – Nightingale Ward Dayroom, medicine trolleys

£3,502

1969

Isotope scanner, heart monitor, Ainslie Ward Dayroom

£11,182

1970

Sports & Social Centre donation – lockers, ICU respirator

£5,565

1971

Imagine intensifier – ICU monitoring equipment

£8,573

1972

Piped oxygen, Sports & Social Centre, ICU equipment.  Relative’s overnight accommodation Hawkmoor Chest Hospital

£11,334

1973

New beds, ICU equipment, chairs, TV’s

£11,476

1974

Infusion Units, tea/coffee vending machine

£9,210

1975

Respirator, Ambulift hoist

£1,682

1976

Fracture & Orthopaedic Clinic, piped oxygen, hospital broadcasting system

£33,487

1977

Part Cobalt Unit, arthritis project, cystoscopy equipment

£42,416

1978

Balance Cobalt Unit, endoscopy equipment, colour TVs

£88,245

1979

Surgical ICU equipment, Cobalt furnishings, King’s Fund beds

£47,898

1980

Cobalt Unit, echo cardiography

£78,326

1981

Surgical ICU, endoscopy equipment, foetal heart monitor

£66,827

1982

Child Assessment Unit

£53,364

1983

John Stentiford Dayroom

£20,188

1984

Video equipment, foot pump

£14,270

1984

New Intensive Care Unit

£250,000

1985

ICU equipment, video camera

£24,562

1986

ICU equipment and beds, King’s Fund beds, upgrading nurses’ classroom

£74,096

 

Additional accommodation A & E dept

£150,000

1987

Cot death computer, Pain Relief Clinic equipment

£23,261

 

CT Scanner

£506,094

1988

Orthofix equipment, oncology equipment, various other medical equipment

£111,978

1989

Newton Abbot Kidney Unit, Cardiology equipment, TREC

£220,911

1990

Equipment new Ophthalmic Department, Servo ventilator, ambulance monitor

£108,473

1991

Laser equipment, ophthalmic equipment, TREC (2nd donations), breast screening, endoscopy equipment

£674,375

1992

Pain relief equipment, Laparoscopic equipment, video endoscopy equipment, TREC, infusion pump, ambulance defibrillator

£116,332

1993

John Parkes Unit, lifting equipment, cardia catheterisation, diabetic pumps

£662,944

1994

Cardiac catheterisation, cardiology equipment, broncoscopy equipment, John Parkes Unit, obstructive sleep apnoea

£197,893

1995

Orthopaedic equipment, oxygen and suction for midwives

£26,298

1996

Upgrade A & E Waiting Room, mobile image intensifier, ophthalmic equipment, syringe drivers, Breast Screening Unit

£434,408

1997

Ophthalmic equipment, Radiotherapy Waiting Area furniture, ambulance equipment, ICU beds

£186,036

1998

MRI, echocardiography machine, coloscopy/endoscopy equipment, incubator Special Baby Unit

£1,100,895

1999

Resuscitation equipment, Paediatric Unit, refurbishment Winnicott Centre, urology equipment, intubating fibroscope, plasma warmer and microscope

£200,519

2000

Skills mannequins, Viridia monitors, upgrading Louisa Cary Children’s Ward

£ 333,197

2001

Louisa Cary Children’s Ward, epidural pumps etc

£652,000

2002

Ophthalmology Cataract Equipment

£40,419

 

Louisa Cary Appeal

£300,000

 

CT Scan Tube Upgrade

£48,000

 

Seating and General Gifts

£7,462

2003

Mobile Image Intensifier

£50,334

 

MRRI Department

£40,000

 

Cataract Equipment Ophthalmology

£152,062

 

Doppler System plus Probes

£8,982

 

Wheelchairs

£2,715

 

Surgical Skills Laboratory

£28,308

 

Herald Express Heart Appeal

£150,000

 

Other Gifts

£4,335

2004

Equipment for A and E  

£10,000

 

Servo Ventilator for ICU

£31,000

 

Digital Fundus Camera Equipment - Ophthalmology

£80,000

 

Endoscopy Equipment

£343,000

2005

Equipment for Speech and Language Therapy

£21,400

 

Equipment for Rainbow Day Nursery

£10,000

 

Equipment for Louisa Cary HDU

£27,270

 

Secular Microscope for Ophthalmology

£17,900

 

Equipment for Garden Department

£60,000

 

Couches for Outpatients/Chairs for Maternity/A & E refurbishments

£25,000

2006

CAT Scanner

£369,336

 

Equipment for J Parkes Unit

£8,800

 

Refurbishment for Bay View Restaurant

£13,000

 

Equipment for Louisa Cary HDU

£7,700

 

Specialist Beds for Hetherington

£49,000

 

Nurse Education

 £2,000

2007

Arjo Bath for Forest Ward

£8,513

 

Lieca Microtomes x 2

£11,172

 

Bladder Scanner for A & E

£9,287

 

Scanning Spectrophotometer

£9,500

 

Replacement Windows for Hospital Chapel

 £30,000

 

ERBE equipment for Endoscopy

£16,602

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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