Join us for a welly good time
around the UK this year

Meet Santa Claus, listen to live music,
enjoy some delicious festive refreshments
and meet some of our life-saving dogs.

Festive Afternoon Tea with MDD

Christmas merchandise 2024

Dogs to help early diagnosis of bowel cancer

We need puppy socialisers to help our dogs start their life-journeys

Stories from individuals who manage complex medical conditions on a day-to-day basis.

Discover the impact of our work

Bio Detection Dogs

Bio Detection Dogs

We carry out ground breaking research to improve early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.

Medical Alert Assistance Dogs

Medical Alert Assistance Dogs

We train dogs to support people with life-threatening health conditions, saving their lives on a daily basis and helping the NHS by keeping them out of hospital.

Ways that you can help us to train more life-saving dogs

The £50 Challenge

Fundraise

There are lots of ways in which you can get involved and support us.

Sponsor a puppy

Puppy sponsorship

By sponsoring a Medical Detection Dogs puppy, you’ll be making a huge difference by helping to support their care and training.

Volunteer

Volunteer

Volunteers are essential to the work we do, providing help and support to vital services from socialising our puppies through to driving and working in the office.

WEBINAR

Super Sniffers: An Introduction to Medical Detection Dogs

Join our webinar as we tell you how it all started, introduce you to our amazing dogs, and share the science behind the sniff.

Sign up for our e-news

Interested in hearing more about the hard work that we do? Why not sign up for our e-news to keep up to date with all the latest news, events and how you can be involved.

Latest News

From rescue pup to trainee lifesaver

Our latest four-legged recruit is a rescue puppy from Battersea Dogs and...

Her Majesty the Queen to continue as Patron of Medical Detection Dogs

Photograph by Hugo BernardWe are delighted to announce that Her Majesty...

Dogs to help early diagnosis of bowel cancer

Our new project to train dogs to detect the odour of colorectal (bowel)...

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