A First – New Varian Halycon for Queen’s Hospital Romford

Rocare are pleased to complete the latest radiotherapy refurbishment project for our client Varian Medical Systems, which will enable Cancer patients in the U.K. to gain access to the country’s first Varian Halcyon™ radiotherapy treatment devices when the first of two systems are delivered to Queen’s Hospital near London later this month. The Halcyon systems from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) provide the opportunity for Queen’s Hospital in Romford, which has one of the busiest oncology departments in the south of England, to deliver advanced, high throughput image-guided radiotherapy treatments while helping to improve patient comfort.

“The arrival of the country’s first Halcyon systems is great news for local patients,”

says Liz Crees, Head of Radiotherapy Physics at Queen’s Hospital, part of the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT).

“We are a big cancer center and we see a lot of patients. These new machines are designed to be very patient friendly and allow treatment to be delivered very quickly while also offering state-of-the-art cancer care.”

“The Halcyon systems will allow us to offer patient-centered, high quality, high speed, fully image-guided radiotherapy,” added Sherif Raouf, Director of Cancer Services at Queen’s Hospital.

“We look forward to having the machines operational so that we can enhance the excellence of our patient care.”