A NEW and improved mobile cancer care unit (MCCU), launched just a few weeks ago, visits White Horse Health Surgery every week to provide treatment to those living with cancer.
Cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust will be celebrating nearly six years of mobile cancer care in South Wiltshire, following on from the charity delivering a newer mobile cancer care unit (MCCU) to the Trust earlier this month. After nearly six years of operation, the unit has saved patients over 291,000 miles and over 21,600 hours in travel and waiting time, treating over 3,170 patients so it was time for ‘Kayleigh’, named after a young girl from Chippenham, who sadly died from cancer, to have an upgrade.
The invaluable service has been visiting Westbury since 2012 and allows patients who previously had to travel to Salisbury to undergo treatment closer to home.
The MCCU ‘Kayleigh’ was originally shared with Great Western Hospitals’ NHS Foundation Trust until autumn 2015, when she then became based full-time, serving patients at Salisbury Hospital.
The upgraded unit will feature all the latest equipment and will still be based at Salisbury Hospital and continues to go out into the community, delivering treatment at the White Horse Health Surgery in Westbury as well as Gillingham and Fordingbridge.
Megan Broadley, partnership manager, Hope for Tomorrow said, “We continue to be proud of working in partnership with Salisbury and are so happy to see them carry on their success with the new MCCU.”
White Horse Health Surgery’s practice manager, Mark Dickson said, “We are delighted to have been and continue to be host to the Hope for Tomorrow mobile cancer care unit. Having this service provided from our premises is a fantastic benefit for our patients, reducing the need for those patients receiving this treatment to travel out of area.
“We have worked together with Hope for Tomorrow on a number of different projects and extend our thanks and congratulations to them for an excellent service provided.”
