Partner Hospitals

Partner hospitals form the basis of our twinning programmes and are of vital importance

Partner Hospitals

Collaborations of World Child Cancer NL and our main partner the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology focus on twinning programmes with partner hospitals in low and middle-income countries. Partner hospitals form the basis of our programmes and are of vital importance.

Healthcare Organisations

There are a number of partner organisations who support and collaborate on our work, including those focused on cancer specifically, and other non-governmental organisations. The wealth of knowledge and experience that these partners bring to the programmes ensures that we are working within best-practice and increases the impact of our work.

International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN)

ICPCN is a worldwide network of individuals and agencies working with children and young people with incurable or life-threatening conditions and their families, regardless of where they live in the world. The organisation raises awareness of the issues surrounding palliative care, lobby for the global development of children’s palliative care services and share expertise, knowledge and skills amongst professionals working within palliative care. World Child Cancer has partnered with ICPCN on a palliative care initiative in Bangladesh, and will collaborate on further work together to ensure that children in our programmes have access to appropriate and holistic palliative care.

International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

SIOP was founded in the late 1960’s as a membership organisation with the vision that no child should die of cancer. It now has over 1,000 healthcare professional members who are dedicated to increasing knowledge about all aspects of childhood cancer in order to improve and optimise treatments throughout the world. SIOP has regional branches and also a Paediatric Oncology in Developing Countries (PODC) committee which comprises 12 working groups focusing on different aspects of childhood cancer treatment. World Child Cancer are very pleased to be a partner of SIOP, enabling us to access the knowledge and support of experts in paediatric oncology and use their advice for our programme work. Most of the twinning partner volunteers and local professionals that work with us are members of SIOP.

http://siop-online.org/

Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

UICC is a membership organisation that exists to help the global health community accelerate the fight against cancer. Founded in 1933 and based in Geneva, UICC has a growing membership of over 900 organisations across 155 countries, including major cancer societies, ministries of health, research institutes and patient groups. UICC works closely with key international UN agencies and the main aims of the organisation include advocacy, campaigning and capacity building. World Child Cancer is a member of UICC and works with it on several key activities including childhood cancer early warning signs awareness, palliative care and training for healthcare professionals.

http://www.uicc.org/

Other Organisations

World Child Cancer collaborates with other non-governmental and civil society organisations in our programme work, using the strength and knowledge of partners in specific areas or around particular activities.

Beryl Thyer Trust

Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust – BTMAT

Launched in 2006 by Dr Peter McCormick, a GP who started making regular trips to Africa in 1992. He first visited Cameroon in 1997 and continued to travel twice a year to volunteer as a children’s physician in three Baptist hospitals in the country. It was here that he started noticing children with Burkitt lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system, endemic in sub-Saharan Africa) and became involved in supporting the work of Peter Hesseling (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), who is the lead of a twinning partnership aiming to help build capacity in Cameroon to improve the treatment of children with cancer. BTMAT has been our partner in Cameroon since World Child Cancer started funding the programme in 2012. The organisation raises funds in the UK to support the costs of treatment for children at our three partner hospitals.

Please Take Me There

Please Take Me There

Please Take Me There is a charity that offers free transportation to people in need, giving them access to healthcare, new opportunities, empowering their lives.

Please Take Me There works with World Child Cancer to help transport children with cancer in Myanmar to the only hospital in the country that can help them, Yangon Children’s Hospital. For most children and their families, the journey to Yangon Children’s Hospital take up to 12 hours each way. Some families travel up to four days and live with less than £2 per day.

Please Take Me There has also supported our twinning partnership between Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and Yangon Children’s Hospital by providing free air transportation for the medical team involved in visits to Yangon Children Hospital. These visits enable the training of healthcare professionals, improvement in diagnosis and improvement in the quality of care at Yangon Children’s Hospital which contributes to increasing survival rates of childhood cancer in Myanmar.

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Thank you for visiting this website. World Child Cancer NL has merged with the Princess Máxima Center Foundation as of July 2025, and thus World Child Cancer will cease to exist as a foundation.

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