A group of patients with an ICD

The aims of the Group

The Oxford ICD Group is a small groups of patients of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, who are fitted with an ICD. The Group exists to do the following:

• To share experiences.


• To give mutual support over the telephone.


• To give mutual support by meeting together


• To relieve anxieties


• To receive information and to learn of new developments.


• To pass on information to each other


• To make suggestions to JRH that might be of benefit to all

Meetings

We try to meet every three months or so in Oxford, usually at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Most of the meetings start with coffee at about 10.30 for 11.00 am. After a discussion at the end, those who wish to do so have lunch either in the Postgraduate Centre or the main cafeteria.

Occasionally we meet in the evening in the Stable Block at JR Hospital usually at 6.00 pm for light refreshment followed by the meeting. We would end usually about 8.00 pm. The exact address is Legal Services, John Radcliffe Hospital, Osler Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 9RP. Local contact is Belinda Isaacs on telephone number 01865 222693 (in emergency only). From the main hospital make for the main reception. Go out of the main door and turn left. You will see the memorial garden on your left. Go round this alongside Blackwells Bookshop. Walk slightly up hill until you get to the top. The Stable Block is across the road through a gap in the buildings.

Members also enjoy social lunches at the Mitre Inn in Oxford.




The next meeting

Click on Latest news on the menu on the left-hand side.


Help available

Please click on Support Information on the menu on the left-hand side. These include

• The Group publishes its own "Patient Perspective" information sheets.


• A lot of sensible information is published by our colleagues in Gloucestershire. We will not repeat it on our website


• We are affiliated to both the Arrhythmia Alliance and the British Heart Foundation. Both have useful websites


• Both the BHF and the A-A publish some very helpful booklets. Copies of these to take away are available at every meeting of the Group

Please see the Links section of our website



John Radcliffe Hospital contact

Elaine Watson, Cardiac Rhythm Department, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU. Telephone 01865 221667
elaine.watson@orh.nhs.uk


Group contact

Geoffrey Shaw, 8 Nightingale Place, Buckingham, Bucks MK18 1UF. Telephone 01280 812547
geoff@icf.org.uk


You have an ICD?

PLEASE MAKE CONTACT



This picture of the heart has been used with the permission of the Arrhythmia Alliance.

Geoff Shaw
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