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Beads of Courage supports children going through treatment for chronic and serious illness. It allows children to tell their story. The beads are used as meaningful symbols of courage that commemorate different milestones such as blood transfusions, chemotherapy, overnight stays in hospital.
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Situation
Ongoing research has found that Beads of Courage helps alleviate treatment induced stress and anxiety, benefitting a child’s mental health and wellbeing, whilst their medical needs are fulfilled by the NHS. This happens best when the programme is distributed at the point of care in the hospitals.
Solution
We have already enrolled all oncology hospitals around the UK. We now aim to provide this programme to all children with Cardiac conditions. The cardiac programme supports children who are born with congenital heart defects and those who develop heart conditions at a later stage. The beads support children through their daily treatments; heart surgery; and any bumps in the road to their journey of recovery.
