Belfast City Hospital

The Belfast City Hospital Trust is the Cancer Centre for Northern Ireland and has plans to build a major cancer centre which would provide the best quality of clinical care allied to a first class biomedical research centre.

The Department of Urology and the proposed early diagnosis unit will be an integral part of the new cancer facilities at the Belfast City Hospital. Patients with cancer can then have direct access to the treatment facilities provided at the cancer centre. It is through this model that MAC will work thus ensuring that any monies spent will result in the best possible value for money. MAC does not see its role as substitute funding for the NHS but rather providing seed money for an initial period of 3-5 years so these projects i.e. early diagnosis and basic research can start with Government then anticipated to fund them as new monies come on stream.

MAC in addition to its Trustee Board will work with a medical advisory board, which will evaluate expenditure and advise on how this should be spent. There are three areas in which money raised by MAC can be spent:-

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