Work completed on new Carlisle cancer centre
Keys handed over at Carlisle’s new cancer centre at the Cumberland Infirmary
A project to develop a new cancer centre in north Cumbria is entering the final stages after keys to the building were officially handed over.
The new centre named the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria has been built on the Cumberland Infirmary site and is a partnership between North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle Hospitals. This will mean that more people can access care closer to home, improving cancer services for patients all over north Cumbria.
THE UK’s largest orthodontic laboratory has donated £1,000 to The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation as a thank you for the ongoing treatment one of its directors is receiving. The company also donated £1,000 to the Red Sky Foundation which buys life-saving equipment for local hospitals and communities. Graeme Winyard is Technical Director at Sunderland-based Ashford Orthodontics and has been having regular treatment for a brain tumour at The Sir Bobby Robson Centre, part of the Northern Centre for Cancer Care at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. Graeme, one of three directors at hugely successful Ashford, was diagnosed with a brain lesion over the summer – on the day the Ashford directors were signing a major contract.