The 1990s’ saw the Friends open its new shop with café and seating area. This started to generate substantial profits as well as paying rent to the hospital.
The Friends bought items in the 90s’ that not only benefitted all areas of the hospital but also the wider community including Samaritans, Health centres, Day centres, Ambulance service, Whaddon Way Community Hospital and Milton Keynes Health Authority which was involved out in the community.
Breast Screening was becoming important in the 90s’. The hospital was desperate to have a RADX Multi-viewer but they could not get funding for the item or staffing required to run it. The Friends purchased the RADX Multi-viewer and also paid for a member of staff to operate it for five years from 1997. After which the hospital had sufficient funding to pay for a member of staff.
The Friends of Milton Keynes Hospital & Community spent over £374,000 on patient care in the 1990s’.
The total rent paid to the hospital by the Friends Shop in the 1990s’ was £333,976.
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