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Gifts in Wills improve care in our local community

Your kindness will support exceptional medical care, improve patient experiences, reduce waiting times, and help more people to go home sooner. Your legacy becomes part of every life changed, every family supported and every moment of care delivered at the Norfolk and Norwich hospitals.

Nick’s legacy is helping other muscular dystrophy patients

When Nick Fuller passed away, he chose to leave a gift to the NNUH where he had received ‘fantastic treatment’, his father says.

Thanks to Nick’s legacy, we purchased respiratory equipment which is benefitting other MD patients in the hospital. The balance was used towards the purchase of two additional CT scanners at the Community Diagnostic Centre. These scanners will provide faster cancer diagnoses, and waiting times will be reduced.

Nick was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a very young age, and his parents were told that he would live for about 35 years. He was an amazing young man who never let his disability affect his approach to life and always had a smile on his face. He lived a very full, enjoyable life, travelling all over Europe, Egypt and Barbados for holidays.

Nick Fuller passed away aged 54. We are very grateful for his extremely generous gift, which will benefit his local community for years to come.

Leona’s gift is supporting eye clinics across Norfolk

Leona Levine left a gift in her Will to benefit cancer care and eye care – two causes that were close to her heart.

Thanks to her kindness, we were able to buy additional OCT devices for the N&N, Central Norwich and Cromer Allies Eye Clinics – reducing the waiting times across Norfolk. The remaining money from Leona’s gift is supporting the purchase of additional scanners in the Community Diagnostic Centre, so patients will receive a faster diagnosis.

Leona had worn glasses from an early age, and when she developed cataracts the eye operation was so successful that she was pleased to be able to get out of bed without having to put her glasses on for the first time in years. She was treated for breast cancer in the early 2000s by the NNUH team, who her partner Bruce described as 'second to none'.

Leona was part of a family who ran a jewellery business in Norwich for 150 years.  Always a generous supporter of charities and good causes, she was one of the founding members of Norwich Young Farmers Club and a treasurer of the Friends of Norwich Museum.

Leona's legacy gift will enhance care in her local community for many years, and we thank her for her generosity.

Babs’ kindness is funding faster orthopaedic surgery

Florence Bradley (known as Babs) left us an incredible gift in her Will, deciding to leave her whole estate to the two local hospitals that had looked after her during her time in Norfolk.

Her generosity helped to fund the surgical equipment and artwork for the Norfolk & Norwich Orthopaedic Centre, which opened in 2024.  Her gift means that patients waiting for orthopaedic surgery will no longer have delays due to emergency cases or in the event of another pandemic.  

Babs was born in Bedfordshire in 1926 and moved to Norfolk with her second husband in 1986. She loved Norfolk, and her nephew Martin says 'that is where her heart stayed'. Her family are so proud of her decision to support the 'amazing NHS', and that 'it could not have been a better choice'.

Babs was still active in her 90s. She had a fall from a bus at 92 and broke her hip, but recovered well. Following a second fall she suffered complications, and passed away in hospital with Covid-19.

We are very grateful to Babs for her generosity, which will benefit so many patients, now and in the future.