Date set for new Renton unit at Hereford County Hospital (From Hereford Times)

Date set for new Renton unit at Hereford County Hospital

12:40pm Saturday 27th June 2009

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CHRISTMAS 2010 is the date that a new Charles Renton Cancer Unit is expected to become operational at Hereford County Hospital.

The estimated cost of the state-of-theart building is £4 million, of which Macmillan Cancer Support will contribute £2.644 million.

People in Herefordshire and the border counties have already raised more than £2. 2 million towards the Macmillan share.

Hereford Hospitals Trust’s share of the cost is £1.356 million – but it will also have to find another £850,000 to pay for enabling works, such as road widening and demolishing buildings.

At a recent meeting of the board, the trust approved a full business case which gave the go-ahead to create 15 beds in the main hospital block to allow the Kenwater hutted ward to be demolished to make room for the new cancer unit.

Some of the beds will be in a reconfigured day case unit to accommodate surgical patients requiring overnight care.

Other beds will be fitted into changed layouts of wards on the first floor of the main block.

The demolition of Kenwater is expected in March next year and the new Macmillan Renton Unit commissioned and operational on its site by December 2010.

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