UK NHS gets £250m for long-awaited proton beam service from 2017
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK’s Department of Health has announced the two sites that will receive up to £250m ($400m) of public investment to establish, by 2017, the country’s first proton beam therapy (PBT) services. University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester have been chosen to jointly meet a National Health Service demand of around 1,500 patients per year.