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What We Do And Why

As the registered charity for Northampton General Hospital (NGH), Kettering General Hospital (KGH) and the Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), our mission is to make things better for patients, their families and staff . 

The therapy team at KGH are fundraising for a cough assist device called a NIPPY Clearway for patients in Critical Care.

A cough assist machine helps to clear secretions (phlegm) from patients' lungs by applying a positive pressure to fill the lungs, then switching to negative pressure to produce a high expiratory (breathing out) flow rate and simulate a cough.

It is most useful in people with an ineffective cough or who struggle to take a deep breath in due to muscle weakness in neurological conditions such as Muscular Dystrophies, Myasthenia Gravis, Spinal Cord Injuries and Motor Neurone Disease. In these patient populations, a cough assist device is an integral component of their daily chest care.