Access to Healthcare

Product Donations

To supplement the philanthropic support of the Foundation, we proactively partner with humanitarian aid partners — Americares, Direct Relief and Partners In Health — to pre-position products for times of crisis, as well as to address ongoing needs in underserved communities. 

To achieve this, we have implemented a best-practice manufacture-to-donate strategy, factoring the critical needs of our partner organisations into our manufacturing and distribution plans to help ensure the people they serve have access to essential Baxter products.

We are also a proud member of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD), a unique alliance of non-profit and corporate organisations leading the development and championing of high standards in medical supply and service donation. 

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Increasing access to care

The Arthur Rank Hospice, in Cambridgeshire, provides care for those with a range of life-limiting illnesses (such as cancer, Motor Neurone disease, Parkinson's, lung disease, heart disease and dementia).

It treats patients aged 18 plus, though the average age of those requiring hospice care is 70. The hospice receives approximately 40% of funding from the UK NHS, but requires fundraising for the other 60% of the running costs. The Baxter International Foundation provided a grant for more than £59,000 to begin a programme of delivering Hospice@Home (H@H) daytime nursing to the largely underserved populations of Fenland. This will improve access to healthcare for those requiring hospice services in a home setting. 

Horatio's Garden

Horatio’s Garden is a charity which creates and cares for beautiful, accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres across the UK. The stunning sanctuaries for patients, create an environment which becomes an integral part of their lives as well as those of families and friends whilst spending many months in hospital.

Spinal cord injuries are traumatic, life-changing events. Patients often have little or no access to the outside world during their hospital stay, yet research shows that being in contact with a natural environment contributes to an improved sense of wellbeing, which can have a positive impact on patient rehabilitation. 

The Baxter International Foundation provided a grant of over £51,000 to fund the Head Gardener for two years, at the newly opened garden at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries Unit in Buckinghamshire.