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GREAT NEWS: On Tuesday I received a letter saying that we have finally secured an agreement from the Treasury that if Westmorland General’s Radiotherapy unit is given the green light they will fund the £15 million project. The letter asks the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Teaching NHS Trust to conduct a joint feasibility assessment of the scheme and then submit the project to the Department of Health. I don’t want to overstate this, but this letter means that if we get through the necessary feasibility study, then the funding needed - £15 million – will be there for the project. This is a big success for us all, I am very grateful for your support. 10,000 of you signed our petition to bring radiotherapy to Kendal, 2,000 people joined our march through Kendal and the Westmorland Gazette ran a joint campaign with me over recent years. We have been working very hard to bring a cancer unit to Westmorland General Hospital since 2009. We succeeded in getting chemotherapy at Westmorland General in 2011, but our focus since then has been on bringing radiotherapy to Kendal too. The intention would be to work with the excellent Rosemere Unit at Preston Hospital to have a ‘Rosemere at Kendal’ unit, so that local people with cancer can have the chance to have first class care close to home. For me, this is a deeply personal campaign I lost my Mum to ovarian cancer and my mother in law to pancreatic cancer. Ive seen friends with cancer travel for treatment every day and seen the terrible toll it puts on families. Asking people to make that gruelling two-hour round trip for treatment is not acceptable in these days of improved cancer care. I want high quality, safe and effective radiotherapy on our doorstep at Westmorland General. This news today is a massive step towards making that reality. thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/NEWS/11726085.Campaign_to_bring_radiotherapy_services_to_Kendal_takes_major_step_forward/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:08:28 +0000

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