May 17th Is NEC Awareness Day! Help us to raise much needed awareness of this devastating condition. NEC UK is the first charity in the UK exclusively for the condition Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC). UK Charities General fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of fundraising events have been cancelled and many charities, particularly smaller ones like ours NEC UK, are struggling to maintain services because of this huge reduction in income. Th

Witten by Anna Hulme Adult NEC Survivor On May 17th ( I recently found out this is the day of NEC awareness!) 1999 I was born a healthy term+6 baby however I developed NEC soon after birth. I wasn’t feeding and I was going grey in colour, my abdomen distended. I was then rushed to the special care unit and put on antibiotics and x-rays were taken in the hope that this would improve things, the next day I was transferred to the local Children’s hospital in an ambulance and was

November is Prematurity Awareness Month, Here is Olivia Jane's story shared by her Dad Graham.