Cancer care service growing at Shrewsbury hospital
Provision for cancer patients in the county is being expanded with the building of an extended facility at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Macmillan Cancer Support has raised £380,000 and an additional £120,000 has come from Lingen Davies Cancer Fund, The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the SaTH Charity.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) provides counselling and well-being services at the Hamar Centre for individuals with cancer and other life-threatening conditions.
The new extension and refurbishment of the centre will see the existing Macmillan Cancer Support Service, which provides information and advice to people living with cancer and their loved ones, being relocated to a larger space within the Hamar Centre, and will include a new quiet room for patients and carers.
Every year, 1,900 people in Shropshire are told they have cancer. Between 2010 and 2030, the number of people living with cancer in Shropshire is expected to double.
Delighted
Tudor Humphreys, Macmillan partnership manager, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust to create a new Macmillan Cancer Support Service.
“Macmillan’s ambition is to ensure that everyone with cancer gets the support they need from the moment they are diagnosed.
“Planned improvements to the service will mean that this is possible.
“The extra space and resources will enable staff and volunteers to provide specialist cancer information and support to more people living with cancer throughout Shropshire.”
Building work has now started and the new centre is scheduled to open in the summer.
