London Home from Home

CLIC Sargent is planning a new Home from Home in Central London. It will be called Paul's House.

This Home from Home will support children and young people with cancer and their families when they are accessing treatment at the University College Hospital (UCH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Located in central London on Euston Road, UCH is a specialist paediatric and adolescent cancer centre for patients aged from 0 - 24 years who reside in London, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Sussex, Suffolk and Middlesex. The hospital also provides specialist bone cancer treatment and MIBG (Meta-Iodo-Benzyl-Guanidine) treatment for the whole of the UK, thus some patients and their families travel from all over the country for treatment at UCH.  
 
The UCLH NHS Trust hospital plans to build a specialist Ambulatory Cancer Treatment Centre at the UCH site in 2011, which will enable children and young people to access chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, as outpatients, without requiring an overnight hospital admission.  

Accommodation facilities currently provided at UCH are minimal and only consist of bunk beds or z-beds on the ward. 

The new London Home from Home
The new Home from Home will provide self contained family centred accommodation, which will be a relaxing and welcoming environment for patients and their families to stay whilst their cancer treatment takes place. This facility will be located just a few minutes walk from the UCH cancer wards and ambulatory centre.