Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity

About us

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity exists to support the patients of the Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak Hospitals, including the UK’s military patients who are treated there.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is one of the leading hospitals in the UK, treating patients from all around the country.  It is a centre of excellence for trauma, organ transplants, neurosurgery and many other fields of medicine. 

What we do

The charity funds equipment, facilities, research and patient support over and above that provided by the NHS – none of the funds we raise are used to replace Government funding. In the year 2009/10 the hospital charity supported the hospitals with over £5 million of charitable grants.  An independent charity with its own Board of Trustees, the charity is headed up by Chief Executive Mike Hammond.

Help us to make the world’s most advanced cancer treatment available to more patients throughout the UK 

We have launched a £6.5 million appeal to make the cancer treatment centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital not only one of the best in the UK, but amongst the best in the world and your investment will help us reach our goal.

The appeal will fund two cutting edge state of the art medical treatment machines. The Tomotherapy TomoHD treatment system is a full body radiotherapy machine that is able to treat large tumours and cancerous material with less damage to healthy tissue. For example, patients requiring a bone marrow transplant using conventional treatment machines have to have the whole of their body treated with radiation in order to suppress the patient's immune system prior to the bone marrow transplant. This causes horrible side effects for the patients - hair loss, diarrhoea, and vomiting, as well as being left in an isolation ward so they don't catch any viruses. Tomotherapy TomoHD is sufficiently powerful to simply treat the bone structure only - meaning soft tissue is left untouched, removing the side effects and helping to speed recovery post-transplant.

The Cyberknife machine is a robotic system that offers radiation surgery on tumours that were previously inoperable or would cause a lot of collateral damage to patients. An example of the type of treatment that Cyberknife will be used for is treatment of tumours on an optic nerve. Conventional radiotherapy would cause damage to both eyes, blinding the patient. Conventional surgery could sever the optic nerve, causing blindness in one eye, but Cyberknife can treat the tumour whilst leaving both optic nerves intact.

With this appeal, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will be the first hospital in the world to have two Tomotherapy HD machines, and the first hospital in the UK outside of London to have a Cyberknife machine.

Current target

5,000,000 in bond subscriptions

Contact

Mike Hammond

Telephone: 0121 371 4852

Email: mike.hammond@uhb.nhs.uk 

Visit their website: www.qehb.org and www.qecancerappeal.org

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham - registered charity No. 1093989 

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