ACT – Making a difference for patients

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The Trust is very lucky to have the support of its own charity – ACT – which helps make a difference for patients by raising extra funds to enhance services, facilities and research at Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie. Making use of the funds raised by ACT allows the hospital to achieve some things sooner than it would otherwise have done and to invest in projects to a greater degree than NHS funds alone might have allowed. The charity supports the development of new facilities such as the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit and the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment like the Da Vinci Robot for the treatment of prostate cancer. It also has a Greatest Need Fund to provide extras for departments across the hospitals where the need is greatest or most urgent.

ACT for Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie – How you can help

There are many ways to help Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie; you could make a financial gift (every penny counts!), organise your own fundraising activity, devote a little bit of spare time as a volunteer or search online with the ACT Google page.

Any amount you can donate will help to make a difference…

• £125,000 will fund a Cell Search System for research into Breast Cancer
• £70,000 will buy an ultrasound for the Cambridge Breast Unit
• £15,000 will fund a Haemofilter for the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit to help patients with poor kidney function
• £4,000 will buy a state-of-the art monitor for the Stroke Unit
• £1,600 will fund a syringe driver to give pain & symptom control medication
• £500 could buy a wheelchair to allow easier movement for the elderly around the wards

For more information on making a donation or holding a fundraising event visit the ACT website where you can make a donation online now

> ACT website

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