RLI Oncology Unit opening

The new Oncology and Haematology Unit at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary is officially opened by Mayor of Lancaster, Roger Dennison

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00:00 Hi, Aaron Cummings, Chief Executive here at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay.

00:08 Fantastic day today.

00:10 So it's Friday the 2nd of February and after a very long time it seems we're here opening

00:15 our new Oncology and Haematology Unit at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

00:18 I'm in one of our waiting areas, you can see fantastic facilities behind me.

00:22 I know there's lots of colleagues at the minute having a look around those new facilities.

00:25 So yeah, absolutely delighted and all the teams are delighted and all our patients will

00:30 get a great service in these new facilities as they do already with our great teams in

00:34 the Oncology and Haematology teams.

00:36 Hi, my name's Kerry G and I'm Service Manager for Oncology and Haematology.

00:42 So we're here today to celebrate the opening of our grand unit which is going to be excellent

00:48 for patient care and also for staff.

00:52 A lot of work has gone into the build from our Capital team, from our Nursing teams,

00:56 Admin teams and Medical team.

00:58 We've all worked together to bring together this wonderful unit.

01:03 Hi I'm Robin, Manager of the new Oncology and Haematology Unit here at Royal Lancaster

01:08 Infirmary.

01:09 I'm just so pleased to have taken the keys for this new unit.

01:13 It's fantastic that the Trust has invested in this brand new unit which will mean fantastic

01:20 new facilities for cancer patients in the Lancaster area.

01:25 I'd like to thank everyone that was involved from Capital Services to the architects and

01:29 especially to my team who over the last four years have been travelling up to Kendal while

01:34 we awaited this new unit.

01:37 Thanks to everybody who's been involved.

01:39 I'm really glad with what we've got here going forward.

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