WELCOME TO EMMA AND BASILDON COPES GUESTS It’s great to see some of the ladies from Basildon Hospital gynae support group coming along to our COPES coffee morning. We hope to see you again and maybe help with getting your own COPES get-togethers set up. Come along to a photoshoot! Target Ovarian are up-dating their [...]
Exciting news! For the July Coffee Morning at The Women’s Clinic at Southend Hospital, we are welcoming some new COPES ladies. This is the start of a new branch of COPES. Emma, the CNS who set up COPES (Southend) along with Alison, a CNS based in Basildon, have now begun to set up a Basildon [...]
Our superb Raffle operates at most of our events, so if you have any business contacts, who would be willing to donate a raffle prize to COPES, to help our fundraising, please let any of the committee know and we can approach them, or you can do that on our behalves. We are always collecting raffle [...]
Our next Coffee Morning is Saturday June 4th from 10:00 to 13:00 We hope to see you there. Catch up with friends, have a coffee and a cake, enjoy the raffle, some therapy maybe. If you have any queries, there is usually a nurse in attendance with whom you can have a quiet, reassuring word [...]
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
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, [...]