Weston Park Hospital

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen to host a new government-funded national HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) network, which will support the development of innovations for care of conditions including cancer, mental health, neurodegeneration and dementia, ageing, respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HRC network […]

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using AI to better predict when a person’s kidneys might fail. Consultant nephrologist and clinical lead for genetics Professor Albert Ong, who has been using the tool in his specialist kidney clinic, said the software was six times faster than manual processes […]

Staff from the Sheffield Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Centre, based at Weston Park Cancer Centre, have celebrated 50 years of providing care. Sixty years ago, the rare group of tumours that grow from the tissue that forms during pregnancy was invariably fatal, but with the development of specialised treatments it is now more than 95 per […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has started to deliver a revolutionary cancer therapy to patients with certain forms of aggressive blood cancer. Chimeric antigen receptor t-cell (CAR-T) therapy is a personalised treatment that uses the patient’s own genetically modified immune system cells to target and kill cancer cells. The treatment brings new hope for […]

Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, has added a new Varian TrueBeam radiotherapy system, taking the number of radiotherapy linacs at the centre to eight. Over the course of its lifetime, the machine is expected to provide 100,000 complex treatments to around 6,500 patients undergoing cancer treatment. Clinical director Dr Jackie Martin said: “As a leading […]

Radiographer Chris Broad, superintendent therapy radiographer Janet Johnson, Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity senior manager for fundraising Helen Gentle and therapy radiographer Jemma Hattersley. Weston Park Hospital’s radiotherapy department handles 6,000 new cases of cancer annually in the community of South Yorkshire, north Nottinghamshire and north Derbyshire alone.  On average, the department has nearly 60,000 […]

Radiographer Nicholas Bell and the Varian TrueBeam STx. Cancer patients in Sheffield and the South Yorkshire region can now access some of the most advanced radiotherapy treatments in the world following the addition of two Varian TrueBeam STx radiotherapy machines and two Philips Brilliance Big Bore CT scanners at Weston Park Hospital. Senior manager radiation […]

Pictured with the TrueBeam is actress Rita May. Thousands of cancer patients are set to benefit from a £1.7million cancer treatment machine that has been unveiled at Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield.  The TrueBeam linear accelerator from Varian Medical Systems is one of the most advanced radiation therapy machines of its kind and it is expected […]