Will Macintyre - Ambassador for IMRI driving the fundraising for Addenbrookes.

Will is an ambassador for a life‑changing project to bring an inoperative MRI unit to Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge (IMRI)

Will Macintyre, a British rising star in motorsport, has seen his promising career stalled by a Primary Central Nervous System Vasculitis diagnosis. In September he was competing at the highest level, a regular race winner with many podiums, while unknowingly battling this disease. On 15 September his world changed with an initial diagnosis of a brain tumour and lung cancer. His unrelenting brain journey is not only a tally of miles and tests but a record of intense emotional strain.

Will, an 18-year-old with the world at his feet, has faced a relentless sequence of hospital meetings and treatments since September, with no relief in sight. His brain journey (4th March) includes 56 inpatient days and 35 outpatient days, punctuated by repeated psychological trauma and continuous cycles of acute drugs, chemotherapy, and steroids that alter his body and mind in a short time. The toll is amplified by constant travel and isolation, turning a future once filled with race circuits and speed into one of gruelling tests, hospital stays, and psychological trauma.

Imagine the harrowing 72-hour window in hospital awaiting a brain biopsy, weighed down by uncertainty, isolation, and family worry. With Project IMRI, that biopsy could be condensed to about 5 hours—a 93% reduction in time and uncertainty, easing both resources and emotional burden. This shorter, integrated pathway could transform Will's journey from fragmentation to coordinated, humane care.

Project IMRI –

Imagine 300 people any age undergoing biopsies and MRI scans, spine, brain, etc. Based on Wills journey, Addenbrooke's estimate Wills care is close to £500,000. The majority of this cost is Will being an impatient waiting for scans.

If we the motorsport community could raise £6million for Project IMRI.

There would be additional capacity for 300 people every year being scanned whilst in the operating theatre shortening inpatient time. In Wills case he had a 72 hour hospital stay for a 3 hour operation.

With a community that thrive on results, bringing additional fast-tracked diagnostic IMRI into the operating theatre will streamline treatment pathways to patients who would otherwise face an overnight stay and a follow up MRI the day after all dependant on availability of the MRI. extending hospital stays. The IMRI will free up hospital resources, whilst all importantly improving patient outcomes.

That's results driven performance in the making, and you can help.

 

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