Patricia Ann Pilkington MBE (née Pegley, 3 November 1928 – 19 August 2013) was a co-founder of Bristol Cancer Help Centre (BCHC, later the Penny Brohn Centre), providing a more holistic approach to cancer care than found elsewhere in the UK.
[1][2] Patricia Ann Pegley was the second of four children, born in Scunthorpe and grew up in Mill Hill, London and later Buckinghamshire.
In 1980, Pilkington together with her husband, Penny Brohn and Alec Forbes co-founded The Bristol Cancer Care Help Centre, a charity later known as Penny Brohn Cancer Care.
She "pioneered the use of meditation and artistic therapies to help cancer sufferers cope with diagnosis and treatment".
[4] The charity opened a dedicated centre in 1983,[3][5] to this day Britain's only cancer center to emphasize the larger care of the patient (i.e. emotional, mental, spiritual, etc.)