Liverpool Actress Backs Red Dress Campaign
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Liverpool celebrity and star of BBC’s Holby City and Torchwood, Louise Delamere, is backing Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital's Red Dress Campaign to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Celebrating 10 years of its Red Dress Campaign, LHCH launched the Campaign at the Liverpool Echo building in February 2004, to highlight the fact that heart disease was the biggest killer of women in the U.K. |
10 years on, there have been significant improvements in women’s heart health but still 1 in 8 women will die from heart disease and LHCH continues to be committed to reducing this shocking statistic.
So, on Friday 7th February 2014 the hospital will host its annual International Wear Red Day to raise awareness of heart disease in women, once again linking up with its Red Dress Campaign partners in the USA (the Heart Truth Campaign). On this day patients and visitors to this specialist hospital will be seeing RED as many staff will be donning red outfits to raise awareness and funds for this important campaign.
The campaign is personal to Louise Delamere because her mother recently underwent open heart surgery at the specialist hospital.
Louise said: “My family are so grateful for the care, kindness and professionalism they showed my mum - it really does provide excellent care.
"The Red Dress campaign is a great cause - heart disease is the biggest killer of women in the UK. Women spend their lives looking after everyone else, we need to get women to look after themselves and help the hospital work towards reducing this shocking statistic, so I'm backing the campaign to go Red on the 7th of Feb."
For further information about our Red Dress Campaign, contact Chris on 0161 600 1409 or email: christine.bell@lhch.nhs.uk