April Coffee Morning Sat April 2nd in The Women’s Clinic, 10:00 to 13:00. Drop in any time. For women diagnosed with gynaecological cancers. We welcome all new members. Free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits Chat with women who have been through a similar diagnosis to yours and who share your concerns Informal [...]
Our COPES website is about to go live and in order to optimise the access to this, we would ask you all, if you and your friends and family have the internet, to have a look for COPES Gynaecological support, Southend. In doing this, it reinforces the position of the site on the internet search [...]
Welcome to our newer COPES members. It’s always good to make new friends and supporters. Some of us have been coming along to COPES for ten years, some have only been once. You’re all very welcome! Download newsletter
A New Year, a new start for many of us. Some of us are getting ready for treatment, some are keeping fingers crossed for good results from check-ups and tests. All of us wish for and appreciate good health more than ever. Download newsletter
Michelle Smith and Marion Bridge from C2C nominated COPES in the National Express staff survey, so securing a £445 donation from the C2C charity panel. Michelle and Marion are pictured here handing over the welcome gift to Emma Azeem, Macmillan gynaecology oncology clinical nurse speciallist. Article supplied by Southend Hospital newsletter winter 2015
Women across south east Essex are for the first time benefitting from medical technology which is preventing cervical cancer. The technology is also helping to avoid invasive treatment which can hamper a woman's ability to have children. Please click on the below link to the Southend Hospital website regarding the Dysis technology. New DySIS technology
Thanks to Southend Soroptimists for adopting COPES (Cervical, Ovarian, Perineal, Endometrial Support) as their charity for the year. The group which meets on the first Saturday of each month from 10am-1pm in the Nightingale Centre was nominated by Christine Roostan, this year's Soroptimist president and herself a COPES member. The friendly meetings provide advice, information, [...]
Many thanks to the Brownswood Masonic Lodge No 4272, which meets at the Rochford Masonic Hall. Despite having fewer than 30 members, the group handed over £1,000 to COPES. The current Master of the Brownswood Lodge, Mr Keith Porter, together with his wife Jean, who recently underwent chemotherapy, presented the cheque to gynaecology oncology clinical [...]
Women affected by some form of gynaecological cancer enjoyed a well-deserved evening out to see the musical 'Starlight Express' at the Cliffs Pavillion. The event courtesy of COPES (Cervical, Ovarian, Perineal, Endometrial Support), provide support, information and fundraising at Southend Hospital for women and their families who have experienced these types of cancer. Article supplied [...]
A new website giving a whole host of information for women and their families living with gynaecological cancers has been launched. Indirectly funded by the south Essex charity COPES, which provides advice and support, the website was researched and written by Emma Azeem, a clinical nurse specialist in gynaecological oncology. The website can be found [...]