Our Strategy

2017-22 Charity Strategy

The 2017-22 Charity Strategy will ensure that we achieve our vision and create a sustainable future by having a clear strategic framework that is backed up with a maintainable reserves policy, an effective fundraising plan and a successful governance programme. The strategy focuses on 5 principle areas of active fundraising, including;

Grateful patients

Community fundraising

Legacy

Grants and Partnerships

Campaigns

To ensure we are delivering the very best projects, with our patients at the heart of them, charitable expenditure is mapped to our five strategic aims.

Hospital Environment and Patient Welfare

Patients are at the heart of all that Royal Papworth Hospital does. Supporting the ongoing welfare of patients within a high-quality environment significantly benefits their clinical outcomes. Royal Papworth Charity will ensure that the Hospital can continue to offer a holistic approach to care by supporting amenities that have a positive bearing on patient care and enabling the Hospital to achieve excellence every day.

Community Sanctuary Project

The Community Sanctuary Project sought to create a community space around a new pond, encouraging wildlife, and showcasing artwork to tie in with our arts strategy; building a reflective space that our patients, their families, community and staff can enjoy and use at their convenience. This project received generous donations from the British Cardiac Patients Association (BCPA) and the Mick George Community Foundation. This area is fast becoming the sanctuary which we hoped to create for our patients, staff, the community and the employees from other areas of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Medical Equipment

State-of-the-art medical equipment forms the corner stone of all activity at Royal Papworth.

Royal Papworth Charity will continually invest in medical equipment to match our clinical expertise and ensure compatibility with the new Hospital infrastructure in 2021.

UV Sterilisation Equipment

Royal Papworth Hospital aims to go above and beyond when it comes to infection control standards and our Thoracic Outpatient Team are leading the way by introducing ultraviolet sterilization technology into their cleaning processes.

Infection prevention is paramount and although the hospital had a robust cleaning process previously, ultraviolet sterilization technology is the newest infection prevention movement. Royal Papworth Hospital Charity is proud to have supported the Thoracic Outpatients Team with their efforts to find innovative ways to improve Infection prevention procedures.

“We are very grateful to the Charity for funding the UV light cleaning machine. They have made a huge difference in the Outpatient Department facilitating a faster turnaround of rooms.”

Angie Jackson, Thoracic Outpatients Sister

Medicine of Tomorrow

As an internationally leading cardiothoracic centre of excellence, Papworth continually develops new ways of treating cardiothoracic diseases.

Royal Papworth Charity will bridge the financial gap from bench to bedside and beyond to ensure that we can offer our patients pioneering treatments that would otherwise not be possible.

DCD (non beating) Heart Transplant

The Charity has committed over £1.8 million to the Non-Beating (DCD) Heart Transplant Programme since it started. This programme has enabled 85 patients to receive hearts from donors which would otherwise not have been used, resulting in an increase in the number of transplants per year by a third at Royal Papworth. Data from the past five years shows comparable survivial and recovery rates to that of a 'traditional' heart transplant. This programme offers patients with the poorest outcomes a chance at a new life and we are proud to support the research into the further development of this life saving technique.

Royal Papworth is leading the way in this research and we are honoured to support a programme which is having such a transformational impact on the lives of our patients and those across the world.

Recruiting Excellence and Staff Welfare

It is the staff at Royal Papworth Hospital who enable the Hospital to achieve excellence.

Royal Papworth Charity will ensure that the Hospital can recruit, retain and develop the highest quality workforce to deliver the best possible patient outcomes.

Nurse Training Apprentices

In 2018 Royal Papworth Charity launched a pilot programme to support 8 members of staff undertaking an apprenticeship. By doing this we ensure our patients receive the very best standards of care, the staff on the wards are not over stretched and the apprentices are able to attend their training. During their training our apprentices are required to study off-site. To allow this vital training, educational activity and ensure our wards are appropriately staffed to deliver exceptional patient care, we have provided funding for additional staff to cover this absence. Royal Papworth Charity are proud to have committed to support the funding of a further 20 Nurse Training Apprentices after the initial success of our pilot scheme.

“Developing my skills and learning further with the apprenticeship has made me love my job even more. It has confirmed to me that nursing is what I want to do long-term.”

Rosie McAvoy, Royal Papworth Hospital

Research

Research is fundamental in providing the future building blocks of cardiothoracic medicine. Royal Papworth Hospital Charity will support Royal Papworth Hospital to develop and expand its research capability to help ensure that the medicines of tomorrow are delivered today.

In line with our Vision Statements Royal Papworth Hospital Charity has supported a variety of grants across the Trust for the benefit of our patients, their families and our staff.

The Heart and Lung Research Institute

Royal Papworth Charity are contributing over £5 million to support the build of the new Heart and Lung Research Institute to ensure our patients have access to the world’s best treatment. In the past pioneering medicine and innovative surgical advances supported by Royal Papworth Charity have not only transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients but also helped shape cardiothoracic medicine internationally. Now with the generosity of our supporters we are we able to build on our legacy of funding ground-breaking research.

Together we will be able to provide new drugs and new devices to improve millions of lives, prevent loss of life and save billions in healthcare costs.

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