Making a difference
How your donations have been spent
Since building the Shooting Star Unit, the charity has funded more than 60 projects amounting to over £1 million, the main 20 projects of which amount to £600,000. This charity is independent and is separate from Awyr Las NHS charity. Our focus is on cancer patients who are being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, or by their clinicians. The charity is administered by a volunteer Board of Trustees under the chairmanship of Mr David Parry. Projects funded are those that enhance the pathway for patients undergoing either diagnosis or treatment for cancer by directly funding equipment that is difficult for the NHS to provide due to its financial constraints.
2005 - 2010
- Fundraising to build and equip the Shooting Star Unit £2.5 Million.
- Mammogram scanner /air conditioning £63,200
- Telecom data capture system £15,000
- Scalp cooling system £7,600
- Olympus medical equipment £15,000
- B.T. conferencing equipment £38,000
- Hysteroscopy machine £38,000
- Ultrasound machine £29,830
- Macmillan Unit Built £167,842
- Macmillan Seren Garden £35,392
- Starcam video camera £5,987
2011 - 2019
- Digital specimen radiology equip. £57,000
- Automatic doors for Shooting Star Unit £5,360
- KMAT colopscope £7,500
- Medical equipment £4,000
- Treatment room swop scheme £15,863
- Medical Table equipment £18,000
- ENT medical endoscope washer £25,000
- Microslad micromanipulator £10,194
- Corevision Faxitron system £26,925
- Ultrasound equipment £26,161
- Sentimag breast cancer equipment £51,370
2019 – 2022
- Prehabilitation Equipment £16,390.43
- 3 Reclining Chairs for IV patients £4,267.50
- Fluid Management System for OP hysteroscopy £27,000.00
- Tissues £99.68
- SecureView DX Mammography Reporting Station £35,000.00
- Fluid Warmer for OP Hysteroscopy Clinic £4,655.00
- Bladder Scanner for Emergency Dept. £6,670.00
- Prehab 3 Lenovo Laptops £1,788.00
- Thorascopy Kit £ 28,264.50
- Intraoral Scanner £ 30,500.00
Quotes from clinicians and clinical departments
Behind the scenes, the equipment provided by Shooting Star Cancer Support has profoundly influenced the investigation, treatment and follow-up of breast cancer in WrexhamMr Cochrane - Consultant Breast Surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, 2019
Shooting Star Cancer Support has furnished us with technology that has reduced mastectomy, reduced lymphoedema and reduced the need for cytotoxic chemotherapyMr Cochrane - Consultant Breast Surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, 2019
The Sentimag equipment has been of tremendous benefit to our patients. Thank you Shooting Star Cancer SupportMr Gate - Consultant Breast Surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, 2019
The Sentimag equipment (provided by Shooting Star Cancer Support) allows us to find and treat cancers so small they cannot be felt as a lump. These cancers are treated with smaller daycase operations with a better cosmetic resultMr Cochrane - Consultant Breast Surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, 2019
Infection Control Team, 2016
Shooting Star Cancer Support funded an endoscope cleaner/disinfector for the ENT outpatient department. This allowed a more rapid turnover of the equipment leading to a “one stop” clinic for the diagnosis of many conditions, rather than having to do the same thing in an operating theatre.
The decontamination equipment has been commissioned and is in use
The improvements have been noted in the Welsh Assembly Government peer review
Radiology
EnCor equipment was funded by Shooting Star Cancer Support. It is a breast biopsy kit that can be used at the time of mammography to biopsy an abnormality more reliably than traditional methods.
We have done 10 procedures performed under local anaesthetic as an outpatient. These cases would otherwise have required admission as a day case under a general anaesthetic. They proceeded without complications and produced excellent results for the patients with minimal scar
