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   ;)  The Christie’s £17 million radiotherapy centre ‘tops out’ at Salford Royal
The Christie’s £17 million radiotherapy centre at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust which opens in summer 2011 has entered a new phase of development. Representatives from The Christie, Salford Royal and Balfour Beatty, the company responsible for the construction of the new centre, gathered yesterday (Tuesday 24th August) to mark the ‘topping out’ of the building – the milestone which signifies when the building reaches its highest point. Lead radiographer at The Christie at Salford Royal, Rachel Good, said; “I am delighted we have reached this significant milestone which brings us another step closer to our goal of treating cancer patients from Salford, Wigan and Bolton nearer to their homes. “This new facility will transform care for cancer patients across this area, treating up to 70 people a day. It is fantastic to see building work progressing so well on site as we move into a new stage of construction.” James Leggate, Associate Medical Director for Surgery and Neurosciences, said: “The Christie at Salford Royal will not only benefit the local population by providing access to their own, local radiotherapy unit, but, the population of Greater Manchester will also benefit from up to the minute developments in brain tumour treatments.” Finlay Inglis, operations director, said; “Balfour Beatty are very pleased to be working with The Christie and Salford Royal on this new project, which is making excellent progress and will provide new treatment facilities for Salford and the surrounding communities.” The highest point of the building is the centre’s plant room, standing at 32ft. A 500ft crane delivered the plant room in nine different sections, which had been manufactured off site. Each weighed between four and 13 tons. Project manager at The Christie, Phil Turner, said; “The plant room is situated at the top of the building, above the treatment rooms, where patients will be given radiotherapy. “The plant room is a vital part of the building which contains equipment such as air handling units, which ensure air circulates around the building and chillers to regulate the temperature of the radiotherapy machines.” As well as treating patients for the most common cancers like breast, bowel, prostate and lung, this specialist development will treat brain conditions. It will be equipped to deliver stereotactic radiosurgery, a highly specialised neurosurgical technique for brain conditions – making it one of only a handful of such centres in the UK. Currently patients from Greater Manchester have to travel to Sheffield for this treatment. The Christie’s main site in South Manchester and The Christie’s new radiotherapy centre in Oldham, which opened to patients in March 2010, are currently the only centres in Greater Manchester to provide radiotherapy. Cancer patients receive radiotherapy on a daily basis for up to seven weeks as an outpatient. Photo From left to right Finlay Inglis operations director at Balfour Beatty, Lead radiographer at The Christie at Salford Royal Rachel Good, consultant neurosurgeon at Salford Royal Tina Karabatsou and James Leggate, associate medical director for surgery and neurosciences at Salford Royal. Source: NHS Christie Trust Due to problems with spam only SalfordOnline members can now leave comments. Becoming a member of SalfordOnline only takes a minute, just hit the red Join Us button at the top right hand side of the page to create your Personal account. Got a news story? Need help with publicity for an event in Salford? Send it to newsdesk@salfordonline.com or call the SalfordOnline newsdesk on 0161 789 5377. |
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