{"id":559,"date":"2017-06-27T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?p=559"},"modified":"2017-06-27T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:30:48","slug":"chesterfield-royal-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Chesterfield Royal Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-560\" src=\"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/hospital-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hospital\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/hospital-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/hospital-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday 26 June\u00a0 we\u00a0were given the use of\u00a0the Information Point at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The picture shows Chairman, Ray Mountain presenting a boogie board to Head and Neck Nurse Practitioner, Mary Green. This device is for the use of any patient admitted onto Devonshire ward unable to communicate verbally, through being a laryngectomee, tracheostomee or for other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A boogie board is a thin tablet with a liquid crystal display. You can write on it with a stylus or finger\u00a0 and wipe it clean in an instant using a delete button. It can assist communication between the patient and both their clinicians and families.<\/p>\n<p>We also raised some funds and promoted awareness of early signs of head and neck cancer.\u00a0 As usual at such days there were many valuable conversations with patients, visitors and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 26 June\u00a0 we\u00a0were given the use of\u00a0the Information Point at the hospital. The picture shows Chairman, Ray Mountain presenting a boogie board to Head and Neck Nurse Practitioner, Mary Green. This device is for the use of any patient admitted onto Devonshire ward unable to communicate verbally, through being a laryngectomee, tracheostomee or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/?p=559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chesterfield Royal Hospital<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}