'It saved my life': Jersey Critical Care Survivors charity helps islanders rebuild their lives

Credit: Jersey Critical Care Survivors

An intensive care nurse in Jersey has set up a charity to support people leaving intensive care.

The Jersey Critical Care Survivors charity wants to raise £50,000 a year to help people with their recovery after being in intensive care.

Holly Fisher, a nurse who set up the charity, says support should not end after a patient leaves the intensive care ward.

Holly Fisher Credit: ITV Channel TV

Two patients who have benefitted from follow up appointments after being in intensive care are Paul Williams and Jacqueline Jepson from Jersey.

Paul ended up with Weil's disease, sepsis, and multi organ failure. Jacqueline also had sepsis, along with pneumonia and a collapsed lung.

They both said that without the care they received in intensive care, they would not be here today.

Paul had Weil's disease, sepsis, and multi organ failure. Credit: Paul Williams
Jacqueline had sepsis, along with pneumonia and a collapsed lung. Credit: Jacqueline Jepson

Jacqueline has decided to help the charity that helped save her life. She is cycling five kilometres a day throughout June for the Jersey Critical Care Survivors Charity.

She has set up a crowdfunding page where she is raising money to support former critical care patients.

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