Travel2Care

To be eligible for Travel2Care, you must: 

• Live permanently in Ireland.
• Have a genuine financial need.
• Have to travel over 50km to a designated cancer centre (see list of hospitals covered below), approved centres or approved children’s hospital.
• Are travelling for assessment, diagnosis, surgery or active treatment at a designated cancer centre, approved satellite centre or approved children’s hospital.
• Do not qualify for other schemes, such as transport funded by the HSE or voluntary transport initiatives such as our Transport Service.
• If claiming for cancer treatment, you must be on current and active treatment or if treatment has finished, the last date of the treatment must be within one month prior to the date of application. 

Cancer Tests

Travel2Care Form A is for cancer tests. You can download this from the bottom of this page. Completed forms, with photo id, can be emailed or posted to the Travel2Care team. All details are on the downloadable form. 

Cancer Treatment

Travel2Care Form B is for ongoing treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or palliative care) and is available only from a healthcare professional within your designated centre, such as a medical social worker or your cancer nurse.

Travel2Care can only accept one application for ongoing treatment and we must have the dates of your treatment plan before we can process the application. We can only provide financial assistance for current treatment, the last date of the treatment must be within one month prior to the date of application. The amount awarded will depend on the patient’s treatment plan and method of transport. Please be aware that Travel2Care is a very limited fund. 

All applications, cancer tests and ongoing treatment, take 15 working days to be processed from the date all required information has been received.

The following designated cancer centres are covered by Travel2Care: 

• Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
• St James’s Hospital, Dublin
• St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
• Cork University Hospital
• University Hospital Waterford
• Galway University Hospital
• University Hospital Limerick
• Letterkenny General Hospital (approved satellite centre), Donegal
• Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin
• St Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin
• Whitfield Clinic, Waterford (if you are a public patient travelling over 50kms for radiotherapy treatment)
• Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Derry
• Tallaght University Hospital
• South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital
• The Mercy University Hospital

You can email the Travel2Care team on financialsupport@irishcancer.ie