Please see below for the main information the Health Care Professional will require to complete the online application (please refer to the Comfort Fund criteria ).
- Patient identifiers (name, date of birth, house and email addresses), treating hospital, type of cancer and diagnosis date
- Has the patient received a MKF Comfort Fund before (it is once in a lifetime payment)
- Patient’s employment status and their total weekly income and if relevant their partner’s employment status and their total weekly income
- Any other contributing household member/s and if so, what weekly amount is contributed
- How many children under 18 years and how much child allowance is being received
- Has patient received funding from other charities, if so which charity and has an application to Travel to Care (T2C) been submitted
- A household utility (heating or electricity for example) invoice or receipt if possible, that is within the previous 3 months that a copy can get attached to the application
- Patient name on bank account
- Bank IBAN and BIC
