The BMCF (Bucks Masonic Centenary Fund) has donated £3980 to the New Milton Keynes Cancer Centre which is being constructed at the Hospitals Eaglestone site.
The BMCF grant will provide all the furnishings and equipment for one of the single rooms at the centre.
APGM Phil Blacklaw and BMCF rep Andrew Hough met with MK Fundraised Paul Strong at the new Cancer Centre to see how work is progressing.
The Cancer Centre which is due to admit its first patients in December of this year.
The new centre will provide treatment and a wide variety of support and information services for patients. The centre will also include a dedicated haematology – oncology ward for 24 in-patients including 16 single rooms with en-suite facilities. As well as this the centre will allow a 22% increase in outpatient capacity and a 20% increase in haematology-oncology day cases.
The new facility will mean that far fewer patients will need to make difficult journeys to other hospitals and that their treatment and recovery will be in a state of the art which has the capacity to allow patients dignity and privacy at a very difficult time.
Paul Strong MK Hospital Trust Fundraiser commented “We are extremely grateful for this donation from BMCF, which will pay for the furnishing and equipping of one of the single rooms on the in-patient ward. Also, just as importantly, having the backing of such a well-respected local organisation as the BMCF will help us to attract further support in the Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire area.”