Overview | Giving Opportunities

Across all three phases of the campaign, our vision is to open up the hospital to the wider community. By dedicating your gift to our ‘Supporting Communities Fund’, you will be helping to deliver impactful outcomes in healthcare settings where resources are especially stretched or squeezed. This kind of support is literally life changing for patients who may have spent months on NHS waiting lists, and includes:

• Cancer Prevention Outreach work: through community pop-ups and free to access GP appointments.
• Open access to Cancer Diagnostics: leading to NHS waiting list reductions via our Rapid Diagnostics Centre, Endoscopy Unit and Pathology service.
• Delivery of cancer education; via an online digital programme.
• Cancer survivorship support: delivered to people across our community living with cancer, to support their journey.

When the programme is running at full velocity, your gift will play a key role in:

• Supporting 25,000 people a year with same day access rapid diagnostic tests. 20% of these will be NHS patients or under-served community recipients.
• Helping a further 20,000 people, annually, through a nationwide, digital cancer education programme designed to build awareness of screenings for men’s and women’s cancers, and the importance of early diagnosis.
• Offering an Access to Healthcare Programme to thousands of people with pop up health events held monthly across London.
• Providing free to access GP appointments to those in local under-served communities.
• Increasing our delivery of a comprehensive survivorship programme to 1,000 people a year. This will include access to financial advice, nutrition experts, alternative lifestyle therapies, counselling and emotional support.
• Supporting 140,000 patients a year, from private and NHS referrals, with rapid diagnostics through improvements to our endoscopy unit and pathology laboratory.

This element of the road map focuses on the infrastructure, technology and cutting-edge equipment required to build tomorrow’s health today. The emphasis here is on accelerating diagnoses, increasing our capacity and creating the most efficient pathways to treatments. It also embraces more holistic approaches to care and enhancements to our facilities that will make the cancer journey as smooth and comfortable as possible. Taken together, these improvements will ensure that we deliver the most up to date, innovative treatments available.

To achieve all this, we need your help to fund specific capital improvements such as expanding our Apheresis and Chemotherapy Unit, upgrading our stem cell storage facility and fitting out new facilities with state-of-the-art scanning technology. Gifts dedicated to these priority areas will make a significant contribution towards halving waiting times and doubling the number of patients we can treat at critical stages of the cancer pathway.

Dovetailing with our innovation goals is the hospital’s ambition to become a leader in oncology research. This means we are seeking philanthropic investment in our PhD oncology research programme.