Achievements
Since we relaunched as Bright Red in 2010, we have invested over £2m in various projects. Our key achievements and highlights are detailed below.
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October 2019
Bright Red Nurse Heather Lee is now in post at the Frirage Hospital in Northallerton, thanks to our investment of over £40,000.
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July 2019
Our third Bright Red Nurse, Susan Davison, has started her new role at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead – thanks to our investment of over of £55,000.
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January 2019
Bright Red are proud supporters of the complementary therapists at Sunderland Royal Hospital. We provided £3,500 of funding which helped provide 1,475 therapies, given to 992 patients.
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December 2018
Our second Bright Red Nurse, Jill Bell, has taken up post in Sunderland Royal Hospital, thanks to our investment of nearly £80,000.
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June 2018
We committed to funding over £20,000 for the refurbishment of Ward 33’s Day Room at the NCCC.
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March 2018
We contributed over £5,600 to the funding of a new Real-Time PCR Machine at Newcastle University, for critical haematological research.
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January 2018
We continued our funding of the Bright Red Outreach Nurse post at the NCCC, providing funding through to 2021.
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March 2017
We expanded our funding of Complimentary Therapies to Hexham and Sunderland.
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September 2016
We renovated three isolation rooms on Ward 33 to help improve facilities for transplant patients. Rooms now include free TV and a PlayStation, and have a significantly improved interior design.
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May 2016
We invested over £40,000 to help create a new ECP treatment centre at the NCCC. Until this time patients battling GvHD needed to travel to Rotherham.
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November 2015
We gave £1,500 to help fund the annual Haematology Patient Survivorship Conference. This is a highly regarded event, one which we are proud to partner.
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January 2015
The 100th Lee Robson Patient Care Grant was issued. These are one off financial awards given to patients in most need of assistance.
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April 2014
For the 3rd year in a row Bright Red provided funding to the Complimentary Therapy Team at the NCCC, which has since continued to receive support in to 2018.
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February 2014
Our largest educational grant finished in 2014. A £10,000 award from Bright Red gave DrArami access to a haemato-oncology and stem cell transplant fellowship at the world renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, USA.
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September 2013
Bright Red invested £310,000 (our largest one off grant to date) into the purchase and running of a state of the art Flow Cytometer.
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August 2013
The first Bright Red Outreach Nurse began her 3 year post at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care. This was extended to 2018 and has recently been extended to 2021.
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August 2012
Our Patient Care Grants were launched in August 2012. In 2013 we would rename these grants to Lee Robson Patient Care Grants in memory of our first Ambassador.
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January 2012
Bright Red invested £50,000 to create a Lymphoma Biobank – a valuable resource for researchers.
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February 2011
The first Bright Red educational grant was issued. This enabled staff to attend the European Bone Marrow Conference in Paris.
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January 2011
Bright Red provided half of the funding for the George Walker Fellowship at a cost of £250,000. The recipient of this grant would go on to secure a prestigious Welcome Trust award, bringing a further £1,000,000 of research investment into the region.
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2010
MSCT 2000 was re-launched as Bright Red. The vision is to build on the £4m raised and invested by MSCT since 1988. Our aims were expanded to include improving patient care and education as well as research.