Tuesday 20 November 2012

Treatment boost for Wiltshire cancer patients

Wiltshire cancer patients may no longer have to travel to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon for chemotherapy treatment, thanks to a new state-of-the-art mobile chemotherapy unit, which will provide the same treatment much closer to home.

From March next year the mobile chemotherapy unit will be based at Savernake Hospital in Marlborough every Thursday and Malmesbury Primary Care Centre on Fridays treating up to 12 patients a week.

Funded by national cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow, the £260,000 unit is one of only four in the country. In a unique partnership, the charity owns and maintains the unit and nurses from the Great Western Hospital’s Day Therapy Centre will administer the chemotherapy.

Full Article on Gazette & Herald

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