CDH UK to speak at International CDH Conference in Rotterdam
June 28th is CDH Awareness Day Here is what we have going on! ‘WEAR 4 AWARENESS’ – encouraging everyone to wear a CDH Awareness item on CDH Awareness day on CDH UK has been invited to speak at this years CDH conference/workshop in Rotterdam, which has been arranged by Professor Dick Tibboel and colleagues on […]
CDH UK FAMILY GET TOGETHER’S 2013
CDH UK welcomes all families to it’s annual Family Get Together in Chesterfield, Derbyshire hosted by the Hills Family. This is the first Get Together of 2013, with others being announced shortly. Our Family Get Together’s are an opportunity for families affected by CDH to come together for a chat and a coffee to share […]
CDH UK welcomes Professor Jan Deprest as a Patron and Medical Advisor
Jan Deprest is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospitals Leuven, in Belgium. He trained in fetal medicine in Leuven, Leiden (Holland) and London (U.K.). He established the Eurofoetus consortium, which is dedicated to the development of instruments and techniques for minimally invasive fetal and placental surgery. That group earlier demonstrated that […]
CDH Awareness Video
We are extremely pleased and proud to present to you the very 1st edit of our CDH Awareness Film. We are aware of a couple of errors and it is not the finished article. This film has taken an awful lot of time, effort and thought and we would like to show it to you […]
Our Medical Patron – Professor Paul D Losty MD FRCSI FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Paed)
We are very honoured to have Professor Paul Losty MD FRCSI FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Paed) as a Medical Patron and member of our Medical Advisory Panel for our charity. Paul Losty is a Professor of Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Liverpool. Professor Losty trained in General Surgery and […]
Find out what our CDHeroes are doing to fundraise for CDH UK!
Without the support, dedication and hard work of our fundraisers our charity could not exist. Our supporters continue to amaze us! People who never thought they would be able to run a mile are running 13 and 26 miles! People who never baked a cake are baking dozens! People who have never organised a birthday […]
CDH UK Research Fund
Here at CDH UK we know how important it is to find the cause (or causes), prevention and improved treatment and management of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and is one of the main aims and objectives of our charity. Research and study in most cases can cost many hundreds of thousands of pounds and it is […]
‘POP UP A POSTER’ CAMPAIGN TO RAISE AWARENESS OF CDH
Join us in our National campaign to raise awareness of CDH by ‘popping’ up posters in public places local to you. There are lots of Social network sites that can act as a great platform to raise awareness of CDH, but there are lots of people out there who are not users of these sites, or visit them […]
Our New Name
Further to our recent announcement informing you of our application to the Charity Commission to register a new name for our charity, we are pleased to be able to inform you that the register has been updated accordingly and our new name is: CDH UK – The Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Charity The change will not show […]
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON OUR CHARITY
What is in a name? A name is the first thing that people see or hear upon introduction and so an association is formed almost immediately. A visual image is struck up each time you hear or see the name again. So, what is in a name? well, quite a lot it seems. Whether you […]