The Trustees of the HECTOR Trust are pleased to announce the following successful applicants to the 2010 round of the Margaret Gadsdon Memorial Endowment:
Joanna Knox, Renal Dietitian, Nutrition Services, WDHB Renal Nutrition Program – Post Graduate Program for Dietitians at Royal Adelaide Hospital. Four day face-to-face program including practical components.	$2000
Catherine Lesniak, Operations Manager, Daily Operations, WDHB Structured programme of work experience over 1 week for two people at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne (patient flow and capacity management)	$2200
Barbara O’Shaughnessy, Operations Manager, Cardiology, WDHB To send an experienced Coronary Care Nurse to Royal Alfred & Royal Melbourne Hospitals for one week to experience their Coronary Care Units	$900
Leanne Wight, Senior Occup. Therapist, Kidz First Child Develop, CMDHB 7wk full time paediatric Bobath/Neuro-Developmental Therapy course.	$1037
Pippa Midgley, EC Trauma Social Worker, CMDHB Certificate in Trauma Studies with Human Development & Training Institute	$2300
Tracy Coote, Paediatric Dietitian, Kidz First, CMDHB Certificate of Paediatric Nutrition & Dietetics at Royal Children’s Hospital	$1340
Pauline Owens, Charge Nurse Manager, Ward4 Stroke/Medical, CMDHB To attend practical component of Neurovascular Education & Training in Stroke Management & Acute Reperfusion Therapy Stoke Nurse Fellowship course, USA	$3500
Jodie Orchard, Clinical Nurse Specialist-Trauma, WDHB To fund a study session on radiology investigations for CNS within NSH to meet the National Radiation Safety requirements for prescribing CT scan, x-ray or ultrasound	$925.13
Jodie Orchard CNS & Kaaren Marcinkowski, Charge Nurse Manager, WDHB To fund a 2day Spinal Cord Injury workshop at Auckland Spinal Rehab Unit at CMDHB for up to 4 staff from the orthopaedic wards at NSH	$1800
Total	$16002.13

Congratulations also to the Waitemata DHB recipients of the A.D. Bronlund Travel & Education Award 2010:

Andrea Benoit, Prof. Leader, Speech-Language Therapy, Waitemata DHB Application to host a 2-day, hands on course in the area of swallowing disorders for the Speech-Language Therapy team, Waitemata DHB.	$2400
Rachel Kapa, Occ Therapist, Isa Lei - Pacific Mental Health Services, WDHB Funding for travel costs in studying towards the Post Graduate Certificate Health Science - Alcohol and Drugs.	$200

History
The HECTOR Hospital Trust was established in 1987 to raise funds for the purchase & provision of Hospital Equipment, Comforts, Training, Operating room equipment and Research to help patients, medical, nursing and allied health staff. The Margaret Gadsdon Memorial Endowment has been established by The HECTOR Hospital Trust Board in memory of its founder Mrs Margaret Gadsdon, who passed away in 2005. The Knowledge Centre administers this funding process on behalf of the Trust.

Purpose and scope
The grant is awarded to assist DHB staff to gain postgraduate clinical experience which can be directly applied for the benefit of patients.

This endowment is intended primarily to assist with the cost of attending courses, training to obtain postgraduate clinical qualifications or courses (Masters and PhD excluded), or for secondments to different health services or agencies to gain extended clinical experience to apply in the New Zealand setting.

Up to $10,000 per annum is available for activities occurring during the 12 months ending 31st July 2011. This funding may be dispersed to more than one applicant on a pro rata basis. 

Grant scope: Course fees & resource, necessary travel (economy) & insurance
Exclusions: IT equipment (laptops etc), accommodation (except immediate arrival), clothing, food

Eligibility
Applications are invited from Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health personnel (including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition Services/Dieticians, Speech Language Therapy, Mental Health workers, Social Workers, Community Health workers, Radiology and Cardiac Services) working out of the Auckland City Hospital Cardiac Services (not other services at Auckland City Hospital), Middlemore Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and North Shore Hospital (not Waitakere Hospital) sites only.

These endowment funds are not available to Medical personnel or those training to be so qualified.

Applications 
Applications closed 5pm on 30 June 2010.

The only attachments required at this stage are evidence (e.g. letter of invitation or acceptance, website, advertisement, registration) of the planned course, event or placement and some key details that would confirm the location, activity, cost, duration, timing, host organisation, etc. 
 

 
The A. D. Bronlund Trust was established under the terms of Mr Bronlund’s Will to help staff, other than medical staff (or those training to be so qualified), to:

· obtain further education or training
· gain experience, skill or knowledge
· undertake research.

The Genesis Oncology Trust provides grants to support New Zealand-based initiatives that will lead to improvements in the prevention, detection, diagnosis or treatment of cancer, or improvements in the palliative care of cancer patients. For 2009 $1 million was available for distribution. These initiatives can be biomedical, clinical, epidemiological or psychosocial and may relate to:

• Education and training of students embarking on careers related to cancer care and/or cancer research
• Continuing professional development of individuals involved in cancer care and/or cancer research
• Research projects, hypothesis-based in the field of cancer or palliative care
• Other projects or activities related to cancer.