Royal Surrey County Hospital

Staff at Royal Surrey Cancer Centre in Guildford are celebrating a milestone after treating their 500th rectal cancer patient using a cutting-edge radiotherapy technique. As one of only four centres in the UK offering treatment with the contact brachytherapy Papillon machine, Royal Surrey serves not only the south of England and Wales but also treats […]

The radiotherapy team at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust says it has become the first UK hospital to deliver its 1,000th adaptive treatment to cancer patients using AI. Penelope Silk received the 1,000th treatment and said: “I’m halfway through my six weeks of radiotherapy for cervical cancer and I’m proud to be part of this […]

A collaboration between Royal Surrey County Hospital’s anaesthetic, oncology and radiotherapy teams to introduce the use of an inhaled painkiller for cancer patients has won two awards. Their use of Penthrox for cervical cancer patients is said to be a UK first and won top prize at the Association of Anaesthetists’ winter scientific meeting, as […]

Varian Medical Systems UK and Ireland sales director Adele Lyons, head of medical physics Professor Andrew Nisbet, chair Sue Sjuve and head of radiotherapy Marianne Dabbs. Royal Surrey Hospital in Guilford has received Varian Medical Systems’ 100th TrueBeam linear accelerator to be installed in the UK seven years after the company’s flagship product was launched. […]

Brachytherapy nurse specialist Claire Deering, lead urology/brachytherapy nurse specialist Donna Higgins, professor of urology and clinical director Professor Stephen Langley, consultant clinical oncologist Carla Perna and Oncology Systems Limited clinical specialist Serafine O’Brien. St Luke’s Cancer Centre, part of the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has transformed the way it delivers prostate brachytherapy […]

Radiology directorate services manager Wendy Dengate, radiographer Christopher Moore, interventional lead radiographer Jann Paton, consultant radiologist Dr Alex Horton, Toshiba Medical Systems account executive CT/XR/MR Mark Foxall and radiographer Anita Sankar. Royal Surrey County Hospital has acquired a Toshiba Ultimax-i x-ray fluoroscopy system that offers three systems in one, with angiography, radiography/fluoroscopy and direct radiography […]

Therapy radiographer Kayleigh Lett-Logue, senior planner Sandra Dymond, stereotactic physicist Clara Navarro, radiotherapy services manager Adrian Flynn, clinical oncologist Dr Richard Shaffer, consultant intracranial radiographer Laura Turner and head of radiotherapy dosimetry Chris South. Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt visited St Luke’s Cancer Centre to officially launch an intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy service.  He […]

Junior intensive care fellow Carly Webb with consultant intensivist and anaesthetist Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley. Royal Surrey County Hospital’s intensive care unit has added a SonoSite X-Porte point-of-care ultrasound system, complementing an existing SonoSite Edge instrument. Consultant intensivist and anaesthetist Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley explained: “As a major cancer centre, we treat some very difficult and complicated cases, typically using […]