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Working in partnership ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2018/19 King’s College Hospital Charity, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS | Registered charity number: 1165593 | Company number: 09987908 Contents King’s College Hospital Charity ............................................................ 3 Welcome from our Chair of Trustees and Chief Executive .................... 4 Trustee’s Report ................................................................................... 6 How did we do? ................................................................................6 How working in partnership shaped our year ..............................10 Our future focus ...............................................................................32 Financial Review...............................................................................34 Auditor’s Report & Financial Statements ............................................. 45 Trustees, Charity contact details and Advisors .................................... 68 Acknowledgements ............................................................................. 74 “Throughout it all the care the staff gave was fantastic. They couldn't have done more to help us out. The whole lot of them are absolutely amazing in every aspect of the word.” ANNE-MARIE, EMILY'S MUM. EMILY HAD A LIFE-SAVING LIVER TRANSPLANT AT KING'S AGED 19 MONTHS. 2 King’s College Hospital Charity | Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 King’s College Hospital Charity King’s College Hospital Charity is dedicated to supporting life-changing care for patients at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s). We make the best care possible by raising money for cutting edge equipment and facilities, innovative research, pioneering treatment, and improving the working environment for staff. The Charity makes a difference at our hospitals by enabling developments that go above and beyond what the NHS provides. We support projects that push boundaries and transform clinical services so that we can deliver a better experience and more positive outcomes for our patients and their friends and family. Who we help We aim to support all of the patients in King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which provides healthcare across South East London and Kent from five locations encompassing the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley. King’s College Hospital in Camberwell is one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals as well as one of four major trauma centres in London, serving a population of 4.5 million people. It is a national and international centre of excellence for people requiring specialist care and a world-class research facility. Princess Royal University Hospital, Beckenham Beacon, Orpington and Queen Mary’s Hospitals provide vital care for patients in Bromley and Kent. You can find out more about our work and the hospitals we serve on our website www.supportkings.org.uk/who-we-are King’s College Hospital Charity | Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 3 Welcome from our Chair of Trustees and Chief Executive It’s been another momentous year for King’s College Hospital Charity, and one we are incredibly proud to look back on. We are dedicated to progressing life-changing care can now read bedtime stories to their children, for patients at the hospitals that make up the and stream films to while away the time. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Together with the philanthropic Pears Foundation, (King’s). As you read through our Annual Report we launched the King’s Youth Social Action you will see the common thread that weaves programme; a youth volunteering project geared throughout everything we do is our ability to work towards teenagers who want to make a in partnership with the King’s community, and meaningful contribution to their local hospitals. A build strong relationships that last. framework has been devised to deliver maximum By partnering with the team at the Children’s support to patients and hospital staff whilst also Hospital at King’s, we were able to identify the ensuring the young volunteers obtain valuable life need to rewrite the future for children with liver skills and experiences in a way that fully disease and launch our Transforming Liver Care complements their other curricular activities. This (TLC) Appeal. Through the TLC Appeal we want to new and exciting service further enhances King’s raise £1.5 million to ensure young patients (many Volunteering Programme, which we jointly fund to of them babies) don’t just survive into adulthood, support the 600 amazing volunteers who make but thrive. You can read more about the TLC such a profound difference across all of our Appeal on pages 20 & 21. hospital sites. We’re thrilled to announce that by working Sometimes, relationships stretch far beyond the alongside former patients, philanthropists and limits of our local community. A friendly community-based fundraisers, we reached our collaboration between cardiologists at King’s and £1.6 million fundraising target for our Support Life a research team in Canada resulted in the Appeal much earlier than anticipated. With purchase of a cutting edge ‘beating heart funding for all the charitable components of the machine’, which forms part of the research we new Critical Care Centre now secured, phase one have funded into the use of Artificial Intelligence of this radical project is set to open in 2020. and virtual imaging in planning for cardiac interventions. For patients, this means surgery can Another triumph for enhancing patient experience be carried out with greater precision, with is the free, unlimited Wi-Fi service we funded minimum invasion, at the optimum time. See across all of our hospital sites in early 2019. page 10 for more. Patients can now make video calls to family and friends, transforming the way they can stay The inaugural King’s Stars awards ceremony was connected to the outside world. Those facing long another highlight of the year’s calendar, and stays in hospital oen far away from loved ones a joyous opportunity to formally acknowledge and 4 King’s College Hospital Charity | Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 L: Gail Scott-Spicer Chief Executive R: Hilary Sears Chair of the Board of Trustees thank staff for the difference they make to our additional care for King’s patients that goes above hospitals. More than 300 guests attended the and beyond what is possible from government event to celebrate the exceptional contributions of funding alone. We have the ability to think teams colleagues and volunteers. taff retention strategically about the best ways to offer our within in the NHS is vital for the delivery of support and we have the freedom to react and consistent care to patients, so we are proud to respond to changing patient needs. fully fund this important initiative going forward to Looking forward to the next 12 months, we aim to ensure staff continue to feel valued and that reach our TLC Appeal target and create a new morale remains high. small grants application process to attract exciting It was equally important that we turn our attention and impactful projects across all of our hospital inward, to our own work practices and procedures, sites, as well as continuing to invest in innovative and duly completed positive reviews of our charity clinical research to drive forward treatments and and governance structures. We welcomed five new sustain our focus on improving patients’ members to our Board of Trustees, bringing a experience. We will also expand and advance our wealth of experience to our Charity. We also said finance system and employ a new Director of goodbye to our Vice-Chair Paul Newman, and John Grants and Insight to help us clearly measure and Beck (our longest serving trustee) and Ali Parvin highlight the impact of our work. aer their terms of office came to an end. e are We are proud to serve the patients, families and very grateful to them for their many years of staff at ings and would like to thank everyone dedicated service. You can find out more about our the staff members patients and families funding Board of Trustees on pages bodies and supporters who have helped us this 68 - 72. year. If you share our desire to provide more These highlights are just a snapshot of the work life-changing care for more King’s patients, we carried out by our Charity over the past year. In would love to partner with you. total, we made an investment of more than £3.8m in research, service transformation, enhancing patient eperience and supporting staff in delivering the highest possible care. As an independent charitable partner, we have a Hilary & Gail clear focus on how we can help to provide King’s College Hospital Charity | Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 5 How did we do? In 2017/18 we placed our strategic focus on the following areas for 2018/19: Advancing innovation and excellence in key specialties Throughout this Annual Report we have detailed many of the relationships we have fostered with ings staff patients and supporters in pursuit of our key obectives. These partnerships have been the driving force behind some pioneering developments in clinical research across all four of King’s speciality areas. £1.157m towards research Through a cardiology grant of £287,000, researchers are exploring progressive new ways to plan for non-invasive heart interventions, enabling clinicians to practice and validate procedures with absolute precision prior to surgery, and ensuring that patients are receiving treatment at the optimum time. The