George Pinney April 2023 London Marathon

On Sunday 23 April 2023, I will be running the London Marathon on behalf of the Bedford Hospital Charity & Friends. Your kind donations will go towards supporting the purchase of robotic surgery equipment at Bedford Hospital. Robotic surgery can reduce surgical risk and speed up recovery following surgery.

Here is more info on robotic surgery: https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/BHCandF-Fundraising-Campaign

Bedford Hospital have provided care and support to myself as well as close friends and family over the years and as a result has become a charity close to my heart. I'll take great pride in knowing your donations will be going towards supporting this life-changing equipment.

If you could spare anything to support a great cause it would be greatly appreciated. 

Those of you planning to come down and watch, I'll see you in the pub after for a pint!

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"The Friends of Bedford Hospital" and "Bedford Hospitals Charity" joined forces in 2019 forming Bedford Hospital Charity & Friends. Our primary purpose is to support patients and staff at Bedford Hospital, by fundraising to install new equipment and improve facilities and services for all. To date the combined charities have raised well over £13 million for the hospital.

We currently have two appeals:

1) "The BHC&F Fundraising Appeal". We have just raised £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 and is a significant step forward in diagnostic capability at Bedford, allowing non-invasive coronary artery imaging, and has also improved CT guided biopsy accuracy. We have now started fundraising for our new "Children's Cancer Services Appeal". We aim to raise £80,000 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. We are also raising funds to pay for the first year's salary for a dedicated Cancer Care Nurse Specialist. This will be a huge step forward in urgent treatment availability for Bedford children who are very sadly undergoing cancer treatment.

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 and donate to either of these appeals please click on their dedicated donate buttons. We pride ourselves in that all members of BHCF fundraising team are volunteers, ensuring that 99% of all donations go direct to patient and staff care.