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Going over the top for St Mark’s Hospital

23-Apr-2007

On Saturday 28 April, members of the public and staff from St Mark’s Hospital for Intestinal and Colorectal Disorders will be showing that they have ‘got the guts’ as they take part in a fundraising abseil down the hospital’s 90 foot wall.

Fundraising activities allow the hospital to continue its vital research and education into bowel cancer, colitis and Crohn’s disease. More than 20,000 patients from across the UK and Europe are seen and treated every year by this, the only hospital in the country specialising in colorectal disease.

Joan Maslem, an intestinal patient who has already raised more than £4,000 by sky diving before Christmas, will be taking part in the abseil along side Dr Simon Gabe from The Lennard Jones Intestinal Failure Ward

At the same time the seven-metre Mont Blanc climbing wall will be positioned in the hospital grounds and anyone from 6 to 60 can take part - it costs just £5 with a proportion going to St Mark’s.

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Note to editors

  • Members of the press are invited to attend a photo call with Joan Maslem and Dr Simon Gabe at 12pm on 28 April. Your contact on the day is Stephen Roose-Jones, director of fundraising - 07776 461 211
  • For more information on the charitable work of the St Mark’s Hospital Foundation and the more general work of the hospital, please see www.stmarkshospital.org.uk

  • For more information, contact Anna Turner, communications manager, 020 8869 3552 or anna.turner@nwlh.nhs.uk

See also www.montblancclimingwall.co.uk