Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity
Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity exists to support the work of Weston Park Hospital 1 of only 3 dedicated cancer hospitals in the country.
Weston Park Hospital provides cancer treatment services for patients across the region - and that means Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster, Worksop and Chesterfield as well as Sheffield. Increasingly treatment is being delivered in your community and your local hospital all under the expertise of Weston Park Hospital specialists.
Patients come from all over the country and sometimes from abroad for the specialist treatments for which the hospital is internationally recognised.
We built the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Research Centre which opened in 1999 at a cost of £2m. The centre now enables a multimillion pound programme of cancer research across all cancer types - the Cancer Charity continues to support the core work of this facility year on year in addition to funding specific research projects.
Our radiotherapy department is a leading national centre and is one of the best equipped in the country providing some of the shortest waiting times available.
The Cancer Charity has completed a £1m appeal for the new Chemotherapy suite here at Weston Park Hospital ensuring the most modern and up-to-date facilities for this treatment.
Our Cancer Information and Support Centre is a drop-in centre offering patients, their families and carers extra help and support in living with cancer.
The Teenage Cancer Unit at Weston Park Hospital provides a specialised unit for patients aged 16 to 25 which is supported in part by the Cancer Charity.
Neurocare
Neurocare raise money for the Neurosciences Department at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. We buy very high tech equipment – equipment which would not otherwise be provided by the NHS. As a result of Neurocare’s contributions over many years, we now have some of the best most advanced equipment in the UK but we still have lots of work to do. We have also lately invested in facilities for patients and carers, including improvements to waiting areas. Our ambition is to make it the best department – not just in terms of equipment but also facilities and support for patients, their families and carers.
Our patients come from all over the country to be treated by specialist teams.
We help patients who have suffered head injury, strokes or have cancers of the nervous system. We also help those with brain tumours, diseases of the nervous system, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Epilepsy and much much more.
Please take the time to read about the equipment and facilities we are currently funding on this page but also what we have previously funded on our past projects page.