For nearly 100 years, our charitable foundation, established in 1935, has set us apart and will continue to drive our evolution – setting us apart for other healthcare peers.

When we look at what will define the business of the future, the answer often focuses on embracing key trends, from net-zero, to AI, to technological advancements and growing online marketplaces.

For The London Clinic, the answer to this question is quite a simple one. Charity defines our mission: to extend world-class care to all, whether through our global community outreach (to patients and partner organisations), local community work, or innovative research.

Our efforts focus on three pillars: Community Impact and Education, Innovation, and Research.

Community Impact & Education

We aim to extend our hospital's reach to the wider community, specifically underserved London communities, and deliver impactful outcomes in healthcare settings where resources are stretched or scarce.

Our strategy in this area includes:

• Cancer Prevention Outreach: We understand that for certain groups there are more barriers when it comes to accessing healthcare. We aim to provide support to those in underserved communities, facing issues ranging from addiction to homelessness, through community pop-ups and free to access GP appointments.
• Open Access to Cancer Diagnostics: We are proud to partner with various NHS hospitals in London to reduce public waiting lists. Our aim is to support 25,000 people a year with same day access rapid diagnostic tests (through our Rapid Diagnostics Centre, Endoscopy Unit and Pathology service) with 20% of these being NHS patients or under-served community recipients.
• Cancer Education: Every year we deliver resources and education via online programmes and an annual lecture in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine.
• Cancer Survivorship Support: We offer ongoing support to those living with cancer in our community, to support their personal journey. We partner with local organisations, hospices and charities to reach people in need of our support.

Innovation and Technology

The second pillar of our charity work focuses on the infrastructure, technology and cutting-edge equipment we need today to be able to develop for tomorrow. The emphasis here is on accelerating diagnoses, increasing our capacity for care and creating the most efficient pathways to treatments.

Overall, all profits we’ve ever generated have been directly re-invested back into our charity. This has enabled our continued growth, and allowed us to innovate across various areas, often being the first to deliver new medical techniques now used in hospitals globally.

Our innovation strategy also embraces more holistic approaches to care and enhancements to our facilities that will make the cancer journey as smooth and comfortable as possible.

Taken together, these improvements will ensure that we deliver the most up to date, innovative treatments available.

Research

Uniting with our innovation goals is the hospital’s ambition to become a leader in oncology research. This means we are seeking philanthropic investment in our PhD oncology research programme, to back further research to support the national cancer challenge.  We partner with London Universities to deliver this world-class research, supported by major donors to the London Clinic.

We regularly fund high-level degree courses for clinical and non-clinical colleagues. As well as helping their career development, this also helps our teams to provide advanced, quality care for patients.

How can you support The London Clinic’s Charitable aims?

As The London Clinic’s Director of Philanthropy, I wish to express a deep sense of gratitude towards those who make contributions to our hospital. Some are grateful patients, who wish to thank us by investing in our future. Others are simply aligned with our vision to save and extend more lives of people living with cancer.

No matter your motivations, when you support The London Clinic you become a part of our vision to transform people’s lives.

The Philanthropy Team here at the London Clinic helps to keep our charitable heart beating. We support the raising of funds in addition to our hospital’s operational income, and manage the delivery of outreach work to the local community.

Our supporters allow us to continue to drive towards an even brighter charitable future.

If you would like to know more about how you can help, please reach out to us directly to discuss- philanthropy@thelondonclinic.co.uk and you can read more about our charity work here.