Meet the the team: Worcestershire Royal Hospital Oncology Centre
During a recent trip to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Synergy had the opportunity to talk to Therapeutic Radiographers about their experiences and the challenges facing their team
The Worcestershire Royal Hospital’s Oncology Centre has been delivering radiotherapy treatments to cancer patients since it opened in January 2015. Patients who previously had to travel to Cheltenham, Wolverhampton or Coventry have instead been visiting the £23m centre, saving an estimated one million miles of travel a year.
The oncology centre is an adult-only service that treats the majority of cancers, excluding neurological and sarcomas – those they leave for the specialists. Last year, the centre saw 1,500 patients pass through its halls and receive radiotherapy treatment – amounting to around 19,000 fractions (individual radiotherapy sessions).
Synergy asked members of the radiotherapy team about their experiences at the oncology centre, what it’s like operating within the Worcestershire Royal and how they are working to improve patient experience.
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