Founder of Hope for Tomorrow wins Good Housekeeping Award

AS PART of the Women of the Year Awards 2016, Christine Mills, MBE, founder of cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow, has won a Good Housekeeping Inspiring Reader award.

Christine was nominated for the Women of the Year Awards in October last year in recognition of her work in launching the world's first custom-designed Mobile Chemotherapy Unit (MCU), in partnership with the NHS, in 2007.

Since then the charity, which aims to bring cancer care closer to home, has provided another ten units around the country, saving patients valuable travel and waiting time and the stress of parking at hospital Oncology Units.

Hope for Tomorrow is based in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, where Christine also lives.

She founded the charity when her husband, David, was taken ill with cancer and she was struck by the difficulties faced by cancer patients in travelling long distances for chemotherapy.

Christine said: "It's wonderful to be nominated by Good Housekeeping for an award for my work with Hope for Tomorrow. My dream, and that of my wonderful team, is to help cancer patients throughout the country, providing a better experience of treatment for them. Our aim is to have at least one Mobile Chemotherapy Unit in every county by 2025."