We always have ‘Question Time’ and have a healthcare professional at every meeting to ensure that all questions on medical subjects are answered correctly".

"Our meetings are held at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, twice a year, in May and November.”

The 27th November 2004 saw our East Anglia Christmas meeting and I am pleased to say that we had a wonderful time. Ann and I had decided to make the meeting even more relaxed, if that was possible, and this time did without a speaker /demonstration as we often have had in the past.

This time we had 5 new people, which we always particularly welcome. In all we had approximately 40 at the meeting which was one of our largest turnouts. As usual it was lovely to have a mixture of patients, carers and representatives from industry and the medical profession.

We were pleased with the positive feedback which we received from a lot of the people attending who enjoyed the relaxed, informal atmosphere, milling around chatting amongst old and new friends. We were also delighted to have made £76 from the raffle and tombola to go towards the PINNT funds.

Our afternoon was rounded off with a question and answer session. The topics of holiday insurance, the 6060 pump and giving set, and water-proof dressings were raised and discussed. It was very helpful to share so many people’s experiences and hear their solutions to some of the problems raised.

We would like to say a special thank you to everyone who provided something for our buffet. A really big thanks must be sent to Ann Bright for all the help that she gave me, as she has been very poorly for the last few months.

We look forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting on 14th May 2005 and hopefully even more new members.