“I’m super active, healthy, have been a vegetarian for a few years and had recently become a vegan. I eat lots of fruit and vegetables. I go to the gym, play football, and go running. I work as a Police Officer and am often out and about in my job. You can imagine my shock at 38 years old being told I have bowel cancer. The next few weeks I was in a daze… “

Earlier this year at our Open day in Telford we announced Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth as the winners of our Purple Iris award.
We were delighted to visit the team in Portsmouth to present them with their award.

Today marks the end of hidden disabilities week.
There are at least one hundred and twenty thousand people in the United Kingdom ‘Living with a stoma’.
The very nature of a hidden condition means that as well as people more often than not being unaware that an individual has a stoma, they will also have less knowledge of the condition than they do about many others.