MISSION

AELCLÉS (Spanish Network of Entities Against Leukemia and Blood Diseases) is an independent not-for-profit association.
It is made up of a group of associations that work with haematological patients and was created with the main objective of helping these patients through their illness, trying to make their day-to-day life better. Providing individualised support that contributes to their full integration into everyday life.
It wants to inform, disseminate and raise awareness in society about the needs of these patients in all areas, including disability. To promote the donation of blood, bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, as well as to favour the quality of care and the improvement of its structures. To promote and support research in the field of haemopathies and to demand greater awareness of all patients from public institutions.
It also wants to participate in international actions and projects with similar institutions to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences.

VISION

To be a group in which all the services and activities carried out and promoted are focused on haematology patients and their families.
We want to be a point of reference for people and institutions in terms of haematological patients and their families and to be recognised as a group with very high levels of professionalism and quality.

To this end, we aim to:

  • Achieve stable and sustainable funding.

  • To seek continuous improvement of our services and the quality of life of our patients and their families.

  • To build an efficient, flexible and transparent grouping of highly skilled professionals.

  • Developing innovative projects and providing quality services.

  • To ensure, through the provision of support to haematology patients and their families, their quality of life throughout their life cycle.

  • To promote and protect the rights of haematology patients.

  • To promote, with the involvement of all member associations, the continuous improvement of the association, contributing to the growth of individuals and of the association itself.

VALUES

All our work is based on the values of the member associations, which can be summarised as follows:

  • Altruism. By providing selfless care to all patients and their families by all the professionals, collaborators and volunteers of the associations that make up the group.

  • Quality and Professionalism as we strive for excellence in everything we do.

  • Coherence. With the same objectives and resources to achieve our mission.

  • Commitment to society.

  • Communication both externally (as a projection and agent of social change) and internally (as an element of cohesion of our common project).

  • Dignity. Our patients and their families are unique and have great value in their own right, they cannot be stigmatised because they are ill.

  • Empathy with our patients, as many of the people who make up the group have been through the disease or are family members and know perfectly well what happens ‘around’ the disease.

  • Honesty. Seeking coherence and a spirit of improvement in our actions, with honesty, sincerity and fairness.

  • Innovation and creativity to carry out new programmes that adapt to patients in every circumstance of their lives and evolve with time and new needs.

  • Equality for all patients, respecting their differences and giving them equal opportunities.

  • Shared leadership among all the associations that make up the cluster.

  • Continuous improvement. Efficiency and ethics as transversal axes of all our actions.

  • Guidance for patients and their families, as the axis of the disease, to plan their future. Facilitating support and opportunities to achieve empowerment.

  • Passion because we believe in what we do and we are sure we can help with it.

  • Participation with an active, constructive and responsible involvement through teamwork and communication of all the associations that make up the group, as we have similar objectives.

  • Respect for people, their evolution in the disease, their processes and their perceptions, thus having a differentiated treatment for each patient or their family member. Being totally flexible according to the surrounding circumstances. Respecting all their rights.

  • Social responsibility: as a social agent involved in coordinated work between the different associations of the group, carrying out our work with the utmost rigour and transparency.

  • Solidarity. All the associations have a common goal and we provide solutions to the needs of our patients and their families to improve their quality of life.

  • Tolerance. Accepting and respecting the different ideas, beliefs and actions of patients and associations.

  • Teamwork of all associations, which leads to an integral and global work.

  • Vocation to help people with haematopathies, trying to ensure that our resources reach the greatest number of patients.

  • Teamwork of all associations, which leads to an integral and global work.