What we do

Our objectives

Our objective is to raise funds to directly help improve the quality of life for those patients who suffer from head and neck diseases and their carers. We feel this can be done by funding three main areas:

The correct diagnosis of a patient’s complaint is obviously vital to deciding how to treat their condition. Until we can see what we’re doing, we’re working in the dark. Many of the larger, more specialised pieces of equipment just cannot be funded by the NHS, so this is where Get A-Head can help.

Unless we can understand how a disease works at it’s most basic level, it’s difficult to develop new treatments. Sometimes these developments are time consuming and expensive. This is where we can help by funding specialist research fellowships into thyroid cancer and supporting the consumable costs.

Sharing information via lecturing on relevant courses, production of editorials and reviews into associated medical journals, assisting specialist training for nurses and other key personnel… these are all areas where Get A-Head is keen to assist with continued funding.

Currently we fund several unique personnel positions which include a full-time Charity Manager, two Research Fellows, Clinical Audit Project Manager, an Aromatherapist/Reflexologist and a practitioner in Acupuncture and Tui-Na Massage. All of these positions help us to achieve our goals and go some way to improving the quality of patients lives.

A full list of the publications produced by all our medical staff, including our founder, can be seen in Publicaitons & Links. The equipment purchased over the years is significant to our aims. These include the purchase of a Portable Suction Unit and digital camera and printer for theatre from one donation alone. (Projects to fund equipment of this nature are on-going.