The Intensive Care Society
The Intensive Care Society Crisis Appeal
Campaign
ICUHELP
Campaign
ICUHELP
The Intensive Care Society Crisis Appeal
The Intensive Care Society
HELP US CARE FOR THE TRAUMA OF ALL IN ICU
In Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across the country, workers are coping with a previously unknown disease, in unprecedented numbers. They see colleagues fall ill and face personal danger of infection while, sadly, caring for many who will not survive.
They are used to handling pressure and occasional losses; but right now, this is a relentless battle, day after day and week after week. Many staff have embraced completely new roles and new ways of working, with unfamiliar equipment on the one hand, and a lack of such equipment or drugs on the other. They are working long shifts in full PPE. And while the current surge in cases will plateau and reduce, we know that we will be treating COVID-19 patients for many months - and likely years - to come.
Even the most experienced amongst the ICU team have never faced such personal and professional pressures before. Yet each has risen to the challenge and still comes back into work, day or night.
But COVID-19 is taking its personal toll on our doctors, nurses, , physiotherapists, therapists, dietitians, pharmacists and more. The price of commitment is already being paid in lost sleep, and anxiety. We can expect more to be affected, and more severely.
As the NHS ‘re-boots’, ICU patients will not just be COVID patients. The numbers we care for will go up, not down. The need is clear: to provide our ICU professionals with the technical and emotional support they need to continue fighting for those we know and love.
Money raised for the NHS is distributed to local trusts. We hope that some of this will be allocated to ICUs. However, the Intensive Care Society - a UK Charity- is unique in looking after the interests of all our intensive care professionals, wherever they work. We identify and share best ICU practice. We develop protocols of patient care. We teach and train. And we are working hard to support the wellbeing of our staff, ensuring that each gets the support they need, where and when they need it.
The money raised through this campaign will be used in three ways.
- To understand the need for support through our network of ICUs across the UK
- To develop an efficient process through which staff can access support
- To deliver this support through personal counselling, group sessions and on-line resources
We expect that almost all the 30,000 professionals currently working within Intensive Care will require some level of support- whether as training in how to best treat COVID-19, or accessing group sessions so that each professional feels less isolated, or one to one counselling over many months.
The task is urgent and requires the support and generosity of each of us to look after those who already have, or one day may, look after us and those we love.
Please help us now.
The Intensive Care Society needs to raise funds for this and for other charitable purposes
With deep thanks and please remember to be as kind to yourself as you are to your patients and loved ones. Then strength will be there for you.
♥ £500.00
Angels of mercy
♥ £50.00
Keep going, stay strong and be kind to yourself. Thank you every single day for what you do and sacrifice that includes family and friends. You’re not alone we are a united NHS family. We will regroup, restore and heal.
♥ £10.00
Thank you NHS heroes xxx
♥ £25.00
Because I was hugely impressed by reading a Guardian article by an ICU doctor.
♥ £50.00
I want to do something to help
♥ £10.00
I read an article by Hugh Montgomery in The Guardian and was moved by his description of the work in an ITU.
♥ £50.00
I so appreciate the difficult work you are all doing on behalf of the whole country in this very crucial emergency. My thoughts are with you every day that the Covid Crisis continues.
♥ £100.00
Thank you for your s stupendous work
♥ £50.00
The reasons couldn't be more obvious
♥ £100.00
Retired ITU nurse, wishing I could do more in this crisis
♥ £100.00
I’m an NHS hospital doctor myself, but can only imagine the pressures on AICU staff at the moment. Keep on going, support each other, let others know how they can help and try to keep smiling.
♥ £25.00
I work in palliative care as a counsellor and would find being with death and talking with distressed and shocked families emotionally impactful enough without having also to have my main attention on clinicsl care.
♥ £10.00
I want to help ICU staff.
♥ £20.00
We need these people! In my opinion they should have been the first in line for vaccination.
♥ £10.00
I hope your appeal will make a difference , what an amazing job the ICU teams are doing .
♥ £100.00
"Never has so much been owed by so many to so few"
♥ £50.00
Thank you.
♥ £25.00
I want to help ICU staff in any way Ibcan. They are beyond praise
♥ £10.00
Because I wanted to do something to show my appreciation of ICU staff.
♥ £15.00
Thank you for everything you are doing
♥ £25.00
Good luck
♥ £50.00
I feel passionate about the NHS and what staff are going through especially in ICU at present, because of Covid
♥ £100.00
Without question your work is life-saving particularly during this pandemic. I have great admiration for all the medical and auxiliary staff.
♥ £25.00
To help NHS staff and as a thank you
♥ £50.00
To help NHS staff and as a thank you
♥ £50.00
To help provide support to NHS staff and as recognition of the amazing work they are doing during this pandemic.
♥ £25.00
I’d like to support the brilliant ICU teams who are doing amazing work across the UK. Thank you.
♥ £25.00
Because I want to help support the staff in ICU
♥ £25.00
I read excellent article in Guardian and know someone who is working as an ICU nurse and I know how they are overdue a payrise.
♥ £25.00
Inspired by Professor Hugh Montgomery, No faith in this government and sick of the cosy BBC version of what is happening. This country has behaved in an appalling manner and we need to support those who have stepped forward to clear up our mess.
♥ £25.00
Well done, special colleagues. Keep it up and stay well.
♥ £25.00
Thank you for everything that has been done and also that is yet to do.
♥ £40.00
I’m so grateful for all you do.
♥ £25.00
Thank you thank you thank you
♥ £50.00
I think this is one of the two most important cases to support. The other is home care workers. Thank you for your courage.
♥ £100.00
The most important goal the campaign seemed to want was to show that people care about the well-being of ICU workers, and as I genuinely do, I've chosen to donate as much as I can.
♥ £20.00
I read an article in The Guardian and realised I needed to do something to help. I'd also just been watching a TV documentary filmed during the worst of the Covid crisis in an Italian hospital which highlighted the extreme stress experienced by all those working in ICU wards all over the world. I've also suffrered myself from mental illness at times in my life and realise fully how important it is to access appropriate help in time.
♥ £50.00
Thanks for your tireless work helping our friends and families during COVID
♥ £13.00
Coach House Quiz
♥ £5.00
Thank you for your amazing work.
♥ £20.00
In memory of our Father Richard. Thanking you all for all you do. From Kevin Dunster and Melanie Reid.
♥ £50.00
Because I read an article in paper about the awfully hard situations staff had been going through during this pandemic and the effect this would have on them.
♥ £25.00
Don't forget our heroes
♥ £10.00
I'm aware of the potential for PTSD in medical staff. I'm working in the care sector to prevent that happening.
♥ £25.00
Thank you for all the marvellous work you have done and we hope that you will get the help you need to recover and to keep doing your brilliant work which means so much to so many. BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES FOR BEING SO BRAVE.
♥ £10.00
I couldn’t do what you all do. You are absolutely amazing. Thank you to every one of you. Take care.
♥ £20.00
It is wonderful all the help and dedication you are offering all the sick people at this critical time.
♥ £50.00
I’ve just read Professor Hugh Montgomery’s article from last month about the terrible strain the virus has put on already stretched ICU resources.
♥ £100.00
Wanting to show in a little way my much appreciation for the great work you all do and to say THANKYOU
♥ £10.00
You are all truly amazing people and deserve the very best support that you can get in order to help you to process all the incredible work that you’ve done, regardless of the outcome.
♥ £50.00
Thank you so much for your hard work and unflinching commitment.
♥ £86.00
We think all nursing staff deserve all the help they can get. They do an absolutely superb job.
♥ £40.00
A small way to say thank you to all the staff who have given so much.
♥ £5.00
To say thank you
♥ £20.00
I have just read the article in You magazine 'Who can save our Saviours?' and was very moved by it wanted to do something to help.
♥ £25.00
I have made this donation because the people working in ICU deserve all the support they can get.
♥ £25.00
Because I desperately want to help all of those wonderful people who are putting everything into helping others during this crisis
♥ £25.00
I am deeply concerned that a legacy of trauma will be left with front-line workers following COVID-19.
♥ £50.00
Your hard work is so appreciated, words simply cannot describe how thankful we are, but hopefully we can begin to show this through our support as much as you support us! Thank you!
♥ £10.00
To say "Thank you" to all ICU workers.
♥ £50.00
Well done, amazing dedication, doing our profession proud, but aware of the stress effects and pleased to support you all.
♥ £50.00
Memories High and Low of ucl when it was the Middlesex. My husband was in Intensive Care for seven weeks. Weekends were difficult as the area had few food outlets and the Hospital canteen was being refurbished. Hugh Montgomery found me something to eat whilst he said "after such a grave insult....". In later years, having learned that he was a family friend of one of my friends, I have heard him speak on the radio, read his children's books, followed his pursuit of the fitness gene, my daughter cl
♥ £50.00
From all of us at Southsea Sangha, an open access peer led Buddhist meditation community in Portsmouth, we wish your org and the staff you support all the best! ICU staff and NHS staff in general have been poorly supported and held by successive governments and we wanted to raise money for you through out 6th birthday party celebrations...where we celebrated community and embracing spontaneous joy as a radical tool for resilience.... we love you and we wish you well!
in peace
Daniel and the Southsea San
♥ £100.00
to support all staff members working in ICU; to minimize risk of 'burn out'
♥ £50.00
I can't being to imagine what you're all having to deal with at this very difficult time, but knowing that you're there I believe gives the country a massive boost. Thank you. Take care.
♥ £25.00
The Intensive Care staff need more than a clap.
I hope this goes to supporting them better
♥ £50.00
I don’t know how you have all kept going. It must have been brutal and frightening and, now exhausting. I am so grateful for all your care, intelligence, dedication and courage. And the personal kindnesses I have seen described on Twitter and TV
♥ £25.00
I’d like to support the nurses and doctors working in ICU.
♥ £25.00
I am a nurse who whilst I don't work in Intensive Care, I have read Aoife Abbey's book and also her interview in Strong Words magazine.
I don't have a lot of money but wanted to contribute a small something towards what she is doing. Vital support is needed for staff and I wanted to help.
♥ £5.00
Because they are heroes that we need to support
♥ £100.00
My lovely daughter asked me to make this donation as her birthday present
♥ £100.00
Because I am humbled by the extraordinary feats of endurance these wonderful humans have endured. As a nurse, I cannot thank these heroes enough
♥ £20.00
Professor Hugh Montgomery has supported me and my family on more occasions than I can remember. This is a tiny opportunity to give something back to support one of the most awesome people I have been lucky enough to call my friend. A great article in The Guardian, Hugh xxx
♥ £50.00
Jane Epstein ran a 10k for this amazing charity and I am donating in her name
♥ £100.00
My agents suggested at Independant Talent Group.
♥ £170.00
How can you not support these heroes who support and save so many lives
♥ £100.00
First hand experience of the amazing work ICU does.
♥ £100.00
Thanks for the foresight to realise that we'll all be needing a variety of supports in the years ahead. COVID-19 merely highlights the pressures that we've all experienced prior to this whether doctors, nurses or AHPs
♥ £50.00
To support ICU during such a difficult time and thank them for all they are doing the Pandemic
♥ £20.00
Thank you for working so hard and professionally on all our behalf.
♥ £30.00
Moved by article by Hugh Montgomery in Observer 10.5.20
♥ £50.00
Observer article
♥ £25.00
Up to date social and healthcare provision is vital for all, especially during a national health crisis.
♥ £35.00
It is appalling that we have to appeal for money for frontline NHS staff. It's up to us to make up that shortfall.
♥ £50.00
I’m a Forensic Mental Health Practitioner, passionate about the mental wellbeing of others. I have been thinking about frontline workers and what psychological and emotional support they are and will be given post Covid-19. Space for reflection and support is necessary and not a ‘nice to have’. I’m really happy to see this campaign for them.
♥ £30.00
Thankfully neither my loved ones nor l have needed intensive care. However, it's a tremendous reassurance to know you're there. Thanks for everything.
♥ £10.00
Sending this with much thanks and love <3
♥ £10.00
I work for the NHS, I can see the terrible impact on ICUs of this disease.
♥ £25.00
Thanks for everything you are doing guys!! Keep fighting the good fight
♥ £15.00
I am a junior doctor working between ED and Acute Medicine in Yorkshire and want to support my colleagues who are dealing with the sickest patients (usually those who I refer from ED/Escalate from AMU).
Thank you for your bravery. I read Dr Montgomery’s article in the Guardian and want to support such an important cause as mental health of doctors and nurses is so under-recognised and it’s ok not to be ok!
Thanks you
♥ £25.00
Empathy for staff
♥ £25.00
Thank you for everything you have been doing and continue to do
♥ £35.00
More use than clapping.
♥ £10.00
I read an article which explained the extra training an icu nurse would need to have for relatively meagre wages and the shortage of icu nurses at this crucial time
♥ £25.00
God bless you all and keep you save. Thanks for everything you are doing in this crisis.
♥ £50.00
You are all doing such a fantastic job and deserve all of the support you need both now and in the future. Thank you x
♥ £25.00
You deserve so much help and support. I am in awe of you all. Xx
♥ £10.00
The carers deserve everyone's gratitude and support. They shall not be forgotten.
♥ £25.00
I donated because I think it's really that the people in ICU doing the hard work of trying to save lives in this pandemic need support.
♥ £25.00
a way of addressing the stress frontline workers endure
♥ £100.00
Thank you.
♥ £100.00
Because actions speak louder than words
#clapforcarers
♥ £25.00
Thank you for everything.
♥ £50.00
Thanks everyone - good luck with everything!
♥ £100.00
you are doing a wonderful job Hugh!
♥ £100.00
We urgently need to provide 'intensive ' supportive care, counselling and education, for our incredible ICU workers/
♥ £50.00
because of the critical work being done in the ITC units and the huge pressure they are under
♥ £100.00
Thanks for all the work you continue to do.
♥ £25.00
Inspired by Hugh Montgomery article
♥ £100.00
This shouldn't be up to a non public funding group to support the front line ICU workers, but it is another critical and worthy service which needs money until provided by the Government. Your organisation is also frontline
♥ £50.00
I’d like to support those in difficult roles in ICU
♥ £25.00
Those caring for us need to be cared for too.
♥ £5.00
In support of the covid genomic research initiative to investigate if certain genotypes make people more susceptible to severe covid.
♥ £10.00
Thank you for your incredible work.
♥ £10.00
Thank you for your professionalism, expertise and humanity.
BTW I wonder if other national IC Societies are addressing this issue or is there a pan European approach. Could you lead on this?
♥ £500.00
Thank you for all you are doing for us.
♥ £20.00
Will the government now realise that health care needs to be fully funded and that in the long run this will save tax payers money?
♥ £100.00
We will never be able to thank enough the selfless heroes who are working in situations the rest of us cannot even begin to imagine. You exemplify the very best of humankind. You need to be properly supported, now and in the future. This is the very least we can do. Thank you.
♥ £100.00
You are doing such an amazing job under such very difficult circumstances. Thank you so very much for being there for all of us. xxxxxxxxx
♥ £50.00
You are truly appreciated for everything you do, thank you. Cheryle Britton, YOLO Wellbeing.
♥ £50.00
I read Dr. Hugh Montgomery's piece in The Observer this past weekend. My mother life has been saved (twice) by the great care she received in UCL's Critical Care unit (following cancer surgery). My family will always be greatful
♥ £250.00
We depend completely on the everyday heroism shown by NHS staff who care for desperately ill patients, in spite of life-threatening risks to themselves. We should never again allow the NHS to be so starved of funds that it has to make such extreme demands of its staff.
♥ £50.00
Because I have 3 friends who work on ITU in 3 different hospitals and they are all feeling the emotions in this article.
♥ £25.00
So much in admiration of what you all are doing.
♥ £50.00
Hope my family never need your skills and dedicated efforts which are well beyond the normal call of duty, but thousands do, so please keep up the good work!
♥ £50.00
Article in Observer
♥ £50.00
Thank you!
♥ £25.00
Wholehearted thanks for your work and very best wishes for your safety.
♥ £100.00
Do a fantastic job
♥ £25.00
Merri Health, Australia.
I am a nurse and want to show support to fellow nurse and healthcare workers in the UK. I can't imagine how horrendous it is in the UK hospitals at the moment. Thinking of you all.
♥ £20.00
Sympathy and admiration for our heroic NHS front line
♥ £50.00
I feel guilty that you have been so let down by our government.
We need a resignation speech rather than waffle from Johnson.
♥ £500.00
Keep going! You’ve got millions of fans
♥ £25.00
Because it's more use than clapping every Thursday!
♥ £25.00
I would like to support the very front line workers who have been let down so badly by this government.
♥ £100.00
My daughter-in-law, diagnosed with Covid, was extremely well looked-after in ICU
♥ £100.00
You are all so brave. We are so proud of you.
♥ £50.00
The rapid adaptation and learning process within hospitals and ICUs has been impressive and the stress huge.
♥ £100.00
THANKYOU for the brilliant effort made by all who work in ICU DEPARTMENTS around the country.
I used to work in ICU and appreciate the need for education and support for staff.
♥ £50.00
Thank you for everything
♥ £5.00
Thank you for your incredible work
♥ £25.00
Keep doing your brilliant work
♥ £10.00
Thank you for all the work you do
♥ £50.00
To show support for my nursing colleagues in the UK on International Nurses' Day.
♥ £20.00
Thank you for doing your job with such professionalism and dedication.
♥ £50.00
Our daughter is an ICU nurse and we know this is a much needed initiative.
♥ £50.00
Because I am deeply ashamed by this government’s disregard for the NHS and it’s workers at every level. It seems to have forgotten that it has a duty to protect the weak, sick and poor. Johnson and others of his ilk have nearly crushed the only place where people poor and in pain may seek help without being asked for money.
♥ £25.00
Thank you for all your exhausting work. Without you we would be even more scared during this epidemic.
♥ £50.00
Article in The Guardian and just to say thank you for the work you do.
♥ £50.00
Simply Awesome, Stay Strong, Stay Well
♥ £25.00
I think the doctors and nurses are doing an amazing job, in very difficult circumstances.
♥ £50.00
I feel the work staff do in these units is demanding and absolutely essential
♥ £100.00
I was very keen to donate after reading Dr Hugh Montgomery's column in The Observer
♥ £100.00
Having worked for the NHS exclusively for 40 years and being retired for 14 years, I know how much extra work your colleagues put in. this is especially so during the current crisis which also requires a degree of bravery as well as much skill. I hope the money will help to provide support and special help for all ICU staff.
♥ £100.00
I wish to show appreciation and support for the essential and valuable work that is going on in our Hospitals in the current crisis, as well as at other times in any situations requiring intensive care. The staff all deserve our eternal gratitude.
♥ £50.00
Thank you!
♥ £20.00
Thank you to everyone working in ICUs around the UK. Your hard work is truly appreciated, you are all heros :)
♥ £10.00
To support those staff that are going above and beyond the call of duty to care for those fellow human beings that are sick and so unwell
♥ £50.00
Keep up the good work. I don't know what else to say. We are grateful.
♥ £50.00
Because I am angry at how the government has failed in its duty to protect front line NHS staff. I want ICU staff to know that other people do care about their welfare.
♥ £50.00
ICU nurses give their all and they need our help
♥ £100.00
Immense thanks to you all.
♥ £30.00
Appreciation of ICU staffs' work, including a neighbour in our North London street.
♥ £30.00
Incredible work that you do. Wonderful people let down by selfish, hypocritical government - confusion and lies costing lives. Many, many thanks to you all.
♥ £100.00
Trying to help a little bit
♥ £25.00
I would like to help the doctors and nurses working in intensive care
♥ £25.00
I can't imagine the personal suffering the staff of every ITU must be enduring. I admit to feeling relieved that I am no longer a community midwife and far too old to return. This is a bit of a guilty secret!!! I am full of admiration and want to send my love.
♥ £50.00
Great article. Happy to help even if only a little.
♥ £10.00
For all sharing the load like my niece
♥ £25.00
My daughter works in ICU so I see first hand the trauma which can be experienced
♥ £20.00
Please let people know they do not have to work in unsafe conditions (lack of PPE, etc).
Over 200 healthcare workers are dead. This must end. I'm sure you would have the public's support, you certainly have mine. PLEASE read: https://section44.co.uk/
♥ £10.00
I was once an ICU nurse- now retired, I cannot imagine the stress and worry you now have for your families and yourself as well as the patients. Ian so proud of you all
♥ £15.00
To support in a small way the extraordinary dedication of Intensive Care workers
♥ £10.00
I am in awe of the work which is done by everyone in ICUs, and grateful that so far I havent personally needed your help - but I know it will be there if I do. Thank you.
♥ £50.00
For all the amazing staff that have done a job so so so hard. We need to care for them
♥ £20.00
Your work and dedication is valuable beyond words.
Thank you
♥ £50.00
Thank you for your dedication to caring for others. We really need to ensure that you are cared for too.
♥ £100.00
So much admiration for you all, please try to look after yourselves. Much love.
♥ £100.00
I am a physio in the bus and have seen first hand the exemplary work the icu staff put in daily under such extreme circumstances. The more education the more support they will have
♥ £10.00
Because those working in ICU need support and they have my admiration. My father was a surgeon and several members of my family are doctors.
♥ £100.00
There is such physical & emotional courage needed in the work you do.
It doesn't stop when you leave the ward or the hospital.
You are all amazing people deserving our boundless gratitude.
♥ £25.00
Two years ago my wife was saved by ICU teams at Watford General and Hammersmith hospitals. Sadly she passed away three months ago in Watford ICU after two years at home that we wouldn't have had without those wonderful teams. Now, more than ever, they need and deserve our help.
♥ £100.00
On reading Dr Hugh Montgomery’s piece in the guardian.
♥ £50.00
Thank you for what you do x
♥ £10.00
You are doing a great job
♥ £100.00
THANK YOU ALL
♥ £100.00
I am so appreciative of the work of ICU staff and so humbled by their sheet guts
♥ £100.00
in honour of my fantastic friend Heather working 12 hour shifts in punishing PPE and choosing whether to pee or drink once every four hours.
♥ £25.00
Education is vital and never more so Than at present
♥ £15.00
I am sorry the government have not supported you - I think they have let everyone down
♥ £50.00
To support those who give so much during the darkest period. Your are heroes.
♥ £10.00
Thank god for everyone in ICU and thank you a millions times over.
♥ £100.00
Amazing work that you are doing! Well done to everyone.
♥ £15.00
Triggered by article in observer. Who cares for the carers?
♥ £50.00
Because ICU staff do incredible work at the best of times never mind in the middle of a pandemic and I wanted to say thank you in a practical way.
♥ £30.00
Because ICU staff do incredible work at the best of times never mind in the middle of a pandemic and I wanted to say thank you in a practical way.
♥ £30.00
We are very glad to help this campaign, having learned about the great work being done in ICU'S, both now and before the virus. We are very admiring of all staff and hope that as appropriate, measures will be put in place by both medical staff and the government to enhance preparedness for such crises, and above all, to provide all the carers and support staff with the pay and conditions they deserve. The crisis has revealed problems and attitudes that MUST be corrected THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, KAY AND K
♥ £25.00
Real front line work. Respect!
♥ £25.00
Because you are the best of people in the worst of times and you need our support.
♥ £50.00
So proud of all that you are doing in the frontline.
♥ £50.00
You are amazing people and we all owe you a huge debt of gratitude.
♥ £1000.00
To all the ICU staff at UCLH who looked after my husband from the 9th to 18th March. Thank you.
♥ £100.00
I had a 2 week stay in an ICU, 12 years ago. Without the intervention and support I received I doubt I would be able to donate today. Thank you for what you do x
♥ £50.00
This amazing work needs to be supporred
♥ £25.00
Because you are heroes and deserve better than this government has handed you
♥ £20.00
Dr H Montgomery's article in the Observer: the work of ICUs is clearly crucial and needs support that cannot be given by the NHS
♥ £50.00
For Mark Osborn and all you wonderful ICU staff x
♥ £25.00
I used to be an ICU nurse and my goddaughter is currently working in this field. I know the pressures and also how psychological support is not always available.
♥ £15.00
Thank you for all you are doing. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be at times - thank you all so much.
♥ £100.00
I know people who work in icu and want to do a small part to help out.
♥ £25.00
In awe and gratitude
♥ £10.00
I read the letter in the Guardian
♥ £100.00
I am a retired nurse /midwife and used to work on Neonatal intensive care but the conditions you are having to work under are exceptional. The need for emotional support to you all is never more needed so here is my bit and I will spread the word of your society. Thanks for your CARING. XX
♥ £50.00
You all do wonderful work, so important that you look after yourselves.
♥ £200.00
The people working in ICUs across the country are facing unprecedented challenges at the forefront of the physical and emotional effects of Covid-19. I hope my donation enables them to be supported.
♥ £20.00
I was very moved by what Dr Hugh Montgomery wrote and would
Ile to give thanks in a practical way.
♥ £25.00
Dr Hugh Montgomery's piece is the Observer talks of the meagre wages of ICU nurses, and of his 20-hour days.
♥ £25.00
To help to support the amazing work of ICU medical staff. It's such a demanding job and we the public ask and need so much of these staff. It's the least we can do to give something back, to help them manage the intense demands of their work.
♥ £25.00
Both my parents, at different times, were in ICU. I saw first-hand the extraordinary care and skill of the nurses and doctors. We are a Jewish family, and the Hebrew word for ‘life’ is ‘Chai’. The word consists of two Hebrew letters, the numerical equivalent which is 18. So I have sent £18.00 towards life. Thank you for all your wonderful work.
♥ £18.00
I've seen first hand the incredible work load these nurses tolerate, would never hear a bad word said about them :) I totally support their dedication..
♥ £25.00
Thanks for all your hard work, keep up the good fight and we will get out of this. X
♥ £5.00
you are doing such an amazing job and need support and proper professional support
♥ £100.00
I wasn’t aware of the situation, it is a worthy cause.
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Thank you all so much for your dedication and sacrifice.
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You people are marvellous - thanks you for everything you are doing
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I so respect and admire the work of intensive care staff
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Keep on keeping on!
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I was moved and angered by the brilliant account of the reality of working in ICUs by
Dr Hugh Montgomery in the Observer
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As the parents of a junior doctor working in A&E and Critical Care at Lewisham Hospital, we are only too aware of the stresses and strains put on the system and all of those who are working in it. We hope the silver lining of this terrible cloud will be that our medical staff and the systems which support them are never again treated as poorly as they have been in recent years, robbed of funds and and respect. The image of politicians cheering and waving their order papers when the nurses' pay cap of
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In appreciation of the outstanding work that has gone on and to find more ICU staff
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Fantastic work!
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My brother works in intensive care.
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I want to support ICU staff with more than a clap, and to acknowledge the terrible strain they are under.
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I am totally in awe of the dedication, skill and compassion of all those who work in ICU
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I read an article by Dr Hugh Montgomery in the Observer today and realised that this is an important cause.
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I'm a student nurse who has had a brief placement on ITU, and I can't imagine what work must be like on these wards with the additional pandemic fallout. I felt motivated to help.
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Inspirational and loving work. thankyou
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Our ICU staff need all the support they can get
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Great work. Thank you all soooo much.
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Thank you for all you have done.
We as a nation need to value your services now and in the future
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Because I read dr Hugh Montgomery’s column in the observer and I agreed with every word he said
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with deepest gratitude and admiration
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To support the work of such dedicated and hard working staff
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Good luck and best wishes. You do admirable and amazing work.
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I have been looking to do something useful for NHS staff. Clapping on doorsteps makes people feel good but we need to support in practical ways.
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To say thank you to people who are doing far more than their job should require and in the hope that this camoaign will help them.
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You are performing a vital service and we could not manage without your work.
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Because three years ago ICU Bradford saved my sons life. What better reason could there be,? God bless you all.
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So impressed with all the work you are doing.
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To all the brave nurses in ICU I say a huge thank you. Magnificent work. Look after yourselves
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My wife’s had Covid19 and her life was saved after 2 weeks of amazing care from the ICU team at Glan Clwyd. I was sick at home and the staff took time to advise me and showed huge compassion in everything they did.
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We all need to help the front line because our conservative government never will.
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The efforts of those in ICU & the sacrifices made by the teams are inspiring. You have been let down badly by government ministers who don't possess an ounce of your compassion & integrity. However, the people are with you & we won't forget.
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Thinking of you good people, thank you
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Because I am aware through knowing Drs who work in ICU's how traumatic the Work in ITU has been over the past few weeks. I am outraged at the way the government, which for years has underfunded the NHS, has expected Drs to work without proper PPE, continues to utter platitudes about the amazing work Drs are doing but no promises of improved recruitment, funding, salaries, or indeed support for the overworked and traumatised workforce. I just wanted ICU staff to know that we really care, are overawed with wh
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A huge Thank you to all those working in and alongside ICU’s across the UK. I am full of admiration for your hard work, commitment and courage.
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Thank you for your incredible work!
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I am appalled by this Government and this is a small way to exercise power.
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How brilliant all the ICU staff are, there are not enough words to describe their courage and dedication.
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Take care of yourselves xx
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It is vital that the trauma of working in ICU is acknowledged and supported
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I simply want to say Thank you to the frontline staff and help in some little way to ease the burden they've assumed on behalf of us all.
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I read Dr Hugh Montgomery’s piece in The Observer this morning & was deeply impressed by the dedication of ICU staff. Also concerned that people are working impossibly long hours and this will undoubtedly take its toll.
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Five years ago my son was in ICU in Manchester after a cardiac arrest and made a full recovery because of brilliant nursing. I observed the pressures and nonstop care and am shocked that nurses have to care for even two patients, let alone more.
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The observer article by Dr Montgomery. 10.05.20
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It will be over eventually
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I would like to support ICU staff who are providing an incredible service under very challenging conditions
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To put a little something to help health workers in ICUs who are doing such a fantastic job
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I only have my state pension, but every little helps. May God give you strength to endure.
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Thank you x
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Having been in intensive care as a patient I’ve seen the wonderful work they do.This appeal will only be a temporary boost.Greatly increased funding for this department,and the rest of the NHS,must be the number one priority for this government.Get it done.At high speed.
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Staff need psychological and emotional support to help them help others and stay safe in lots of ways.
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I felt uncomfortable about ‘the Thursday clap’ because I didn’t see how that would constructively help the people it was directed at. Seeing Dr Hugh Montgomery’’s article in today’s Observer made me think “finally! A positive way to help.” How can we publicise ICS more? Thank you.
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I used to be an ICU nurse and have some understanding of the pressures staff will currently be under.
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It’s a privilege to help you all. Thank you!
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Thank you for everything you do.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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After reading Dr. Hugh Montgomery's letter in the Observer today I felt compelled to help in some small way. Good luck to you all.
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Thank you to all our NHS Intensive Care workers and the work you do.
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Because this is where the pressure point is
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To support those bearing the brunt of this dreadful crisis - made even worse by the unbelievable incompetence of the UK government
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To help you provide ongoing support to the staff in these terrible times. A few years ago my husband benefited on two occasions from the care from intensive care staff, I will never stop being grateful. Thank you
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Thank you for the amazing work done by all staff at every ICU dept up and down the country.
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With our greatest thanks for the courage bravery and selfless work that we could not begin to manage without. With our best wishes, Susie and Mark Benson
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I watched the C4 interview with the intensive care doctor and I really felt for all those who have been working in these circumstances.
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Because Olga asked
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Guided by Olga Kurylenko's tweet.
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Thank you for your incredible work x
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To some way support all the brave and awesome people helping to deal with the crisis
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Feel for you
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Hope all staff receive support they deserve
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These intensive care workers need every penny we can spare to support
their incredible work
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My heart goes out to all of you on the front line who are tending for those in the ICU. Your dedication and commitment is extraordinary.
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Take care everyone
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ICU workers are Heroes
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I admire your work so much x
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In support of my cousin, an ICU nursing sister.
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To support our amazing NHS staff in the ICU RGH Newport. We hope we don’t ever need to see you at work! Though it’s very comforting to know you’re there. Thank you, The Leanings.
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My brother in a staff nurse in ICU. We need folks like him and we need them to be physically and mentally well to cope with the demands of their job. It's a tough job at the best of times, but immensely difficult in the current COVID19 situation.
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Our amazing ICU staff are going to need so much support. The impact of this trauma is huge and far-reaching - not to be underestimated.
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Great cause..!
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In awe of intensive care workers. Thank you so much to them all. X
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It's important that we support those who have worked within ITU - whatever their professional background, from Porter to Doctor and everyone in-between.
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So in awe of all you do in ICU everyday. From a fellow NHS worker
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Our daughter works in Intensive Care and believes passionately in the all round well being of the patients and staff.
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The work that is done by intensive care and all NHS staff is remarkable and so undervalued by our society and specially the print media. I am making a donation to lend my support to them and to applaud what they do.
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The work that is done by the intensive care and all staff in the NHS is remarkable and this sector of society has been ignored and undervalued for far too long. At last we are appreciating what they do.
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To help those who are tirelessly working on the front line to help those in need.
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Thank you for all of the incredible work you do
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