“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”. Another year is about to come to an end. Although not as challenging as the previous year, 2021 had its share of bad news with the new COVID variants. Although COVID was still around, people got used to it. We strongly advise people to follow the government’s guidelines – we are still in it together and we can only fight it together.
This year we continued our partnership with the wonderful Eloise from the Fertility Help Hub, Amanda and Expectancy Scanning Studios, THis is my healthcare, and welcomed to the HSFC Family new partners:
Together with our partners, we are stronger, we are part of a community determined to inform and educate on the struggles of the fertility. Throughout 2021 we ran informative sessions on Instagram, and webinars. Here’s to a successful 2022!
We welcomed to our HSFC family our amazing Dr Lieve Verstraete, a very experienced Belgian MD, Consultant Gynaecologyst & Fertility Specialist with more than 20 years of international experience from Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and France. We feel very fortunate to have her in our team. We said a temporary good bye to Maya, our embryologist, who went on maternity leave after having the adorable baby Emma.
We welcomed to our HSFC family many babies, and we caught up with families whose “babies” are growing up – some of them are already in school. Our fantastic miscarriage awareness ambassadors, Nicola Manashe and Alex Reid, welcomed their baby daughter, Anastasia Pixie Reid, in July 2021, after 7 years of facing infertility. We are glad we could help, it was a team effort and the baby is simply adorable. As Alex said “it’s our baby!”. What about a sibling for baby Anastasia?
Last, but not least, a very special message for my team, for my HSFC family. Each and every one of them deserves a special mention in this message, because they all work very hard and they put their heart and soul in making the clinic run – a big, big thank you to Joana (Office Manager), Megan and Malika (Reception), Zack (Medical Clerk), Carina and Cliodhna (Patient Coordinators), Rachel (Head Nurse), Nura, Josie and Lynda (nurses), Poonam (Pharmacist), Marion and Bernie (Healthcare assistants), Sam (Embryology Lab Manager), Mihaela, Madison, Wafa and Dimitra (Embryology), Dharshi (Head of Admin and Donation), Mustafa (Quality Control), Delia (Marketing Manager), and the man who is making sure everything is running as smoothly as possible, Suvir (General Manager). Thank you for the bottom of my heart!
We are looking forward to 2022 – we have many wonderful surprises in stock that will enhance our patients’ overall experience.
Let me we wish you all a restful, peaceful and safe Christmas, full of love. I am looking forward to welcoming you to the clinic in 2022.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!