Concert at the Bedford Christmas Tree Festival 7.30pm Friday 4th December

"The Friends of Bedford Hospital" and "Bedford Hospitals Charity" joined forces in 2019 forming Bedford Hospital Charity & Friends. Our purpose is to support patients and staff at Bedford Hospital, by fundraising to install new equipment and improve facilities and services for all, having now raised over £14 million for the hospital.

We have two appeals:

1) "The BHC&F Fundraising Appeal". In late 2024 we donated £600,000 to purchase the add-on equipment to a basic CT Scanner that allows Cardiac Angiography to be performed without prior preparation as is currently required for Cardiac CT Scans. The scanner has now been operational since November 2024 and is a significant step forward in diagnostic capability at Bedford, allowing non-invasive coronary artery imaging, and improved CT guided biopsy accuracy. During the summer of 2025 we completed the "Children's Cancer Services Appeal", raising £80,000. This was used to refurbish two dedicated Cancer Care side rooms on Riverbank Ward where acutely ill children who develop complications whilst undergoing treatment at Addenbrookes or Great Ormond Street hospitals can be treated urgently. Also included in the £80,000 were funds to pay the first year's salary for a dedicated Cancer Care Nurse. We are now raising £45,000 for the Stabilisation and Treatment room on Riverbank Ward where patients arriving acutely ill on the ward are treated and stabilised. This room has not been improved since the ward opened in 1995, requiring significant upgrade.

2) "Primrose Car Service"  At no charge, a special team of volunteer drivers take Bedford Hospital out-patients for their radiotherapy treatment at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

If you would like to support either of these appeals please click on their dedicated donate buttons. We pride ourselves in having very low overheads, with 99.5% of all money going direct to patient care