The riders of KPS1000 are cycling to John O’Groats to raise £10,000 for Cancer Care at Bath Royal United Hospital. That £10,000 will go towards the £5 million target set by The Forever Friends Appeal as the second part of its RUH Cancer Care Campaign to build a pioneering new Cancer Centre at the RUH.
The aim is to build a Centre where every brick is therapeutic, where clinical excellence can be provided with a holistic approach that delivers a uniquely beneficial healing environment with improved outcomes, an exceptional patient experience and a strong focus on long-term survivorship.
As a District General Hospital with a core specialism in treating mainstream cancers, the RUH is rightly proud of the level of clinical excellence and care provided to its cancer patients. But now, inspired by initiatives in the States and more recently at the new UCLH Cancer Centre in London, it has the opportunity to do something very special and different.
The aim is to build a new and pioneering Cancer Centre which balances clinical expertise with the provision of a nurturing and therapeutic environment – that is centred on patient care and experience, reducing stress and anxiety, whilst promoting health and thereby embracing a ‘holistic’ approach for patients and their families.
The RUH is familiar with setting new standards at ‘DGH’ level. The environmentally sustainable Dyson Centre adopted this all-embracing holistic approach for our tiny patients and their families and is actively providing a model for the future of neonatal care in the UK and beyond.
The RUH now intends to do the same in transforming the care of the hospital’s cancer patients and their families, providing a model of a care that can be replicated elsewhere by DGH’s and other healthcare institutions. A Cancer Centre where the four strands of ‘Clinical Excellence’, a ‘Therapeutic Environment’, a ‘Survivorship model of care’ and proactive ‘Research’ are welded together to powerful effect, creating a highly beneficial healing environment for patients and their families.
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