Advancing the cure and treatment of blood cancers
Leukaemia Fund
Elimination of
GRANTS
ELF awards a number of grants each year and welcomes applications for support for patient centred work. The types of grant that ELF funds include grants to wards, to organisations and to individuals to support patient centred work devoted to the treatment and cure of blood cancers.
ELF also awards grants to blood cancer patients, their family and their carers where there are financial problems as a result of their illness.
For more information about ELF’s grants please visit our Grants page.
ELF’s Educational Fellowship scheme enables clinicians, nurses, clinical scientists and related health professionals resident and working in the UK to advance their knowledge and expertise in the treatment of blood cancers by attending conferences, specialist courses, first degree haematology modules for nurses, formal in-
ELF’s grants and fellowships are aimed at advancing the cure and treatment of blood cancers. In recent years ELF has been establishing itself as a supporter of patient centred work, and this helps to distinguish it from many of the other leukaemia charities.
NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS GROUP
ELF is supporting the EBMT(UK) NAP Group by sponsoring one of their conferences each year and by helping then to establish a Patient and Family Forum.
The EBMT(UK) NAP Group exists to provide education and networking opportunities for all healthcare professionals involved in the care of stem cell transplant patients in the UK.
Seen right is Evelyn Dannie, sister of the Day Unit at Imperial (previously called the Hammersmith) Hospital, who gave a presentation on the use of a patient satisfaction survey in a day care setting which cares for stem cell transplant patients.
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