Kenresa Stratford (Community and Events Manager) and Lisa Utting (Fundraising Team Manager) of Brighter Futures holding a presentation cheque for £10,000 for the CT Scanner Appeal in front of the Radiotherapy Centre – due to open 2022
The Friends have provided a grant of £10,000 to the Brighter Futures’ CT Scanner Appeal at GWH. The scanner will be installed in the new Swindon Radiotherapy Centre – due to open in 2022.
Thanks to advances in technology, radiographers at in Swindon will be able to share patient CT scans with the expert planning team based at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. They will use this information to create bespoke and targeted radiotherapy treatment plans for each patient. This gives patients the expertise provided by a regional centre of cancer excellence, whilst offering patients cancer care close to home and their support networks.
“Thank you so much Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community for this amazing donation of £10,000 towards a CT scanner for the new Radiotherapy Centre under construction on our site at Great Western Hospital. The CT scanner will be used for patients’ pre-planning appointments before their radiotherapy treatment starts here in Swindon. We are over the moon to receive this and can’t thank the Friends enough for all the support they have given to help local cancer patients receive great care closer to home.” (Jane Leighton, Major Gifts Manager, Brighter Futures)
You can find out more about this project and the Radiotherapy Centre by visiting https://www.brighterfuturesgwh.nhs.uk/fundraising/cancer-service-development-projects/radiotherapy-appeal-update/”
