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BBC News
01-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
South West brain cancer network becomes Centre of Excellence
A network of health professionals in south-west England that specialises in brain tumours has been recognised for its high standard of Plymouth and the Peninsula Neuro-Oncology Network, which includes NHS trusts across Devon and Cornwall, is one of 14 new Tessa Jowell Centres of Labour cabinet member Dame Tessa died in 2018 after she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and the Centre for Excellence was established in her name two years Plymouth and Peninsula network has been selected for the steps it has been making in research, rehabilitation and commitment to growing its team, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. £40m funding available The network includes University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Prof of neurosurgery at University Hospitals Plymouth, Dr Ellie Edlmann, told an NHS Trust board meeting on Wednesday that £40m of investment was available to Tessa Jowell centres and she wanted some of that for Edlmann said more genetic testing would enable the centre to learn more about diagnoses and improve the eligibility of patients for drug organisations that are awarded Centre for Excellence status have to reapply every four years.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Leeds hospital recognised for 'excellent' brain tumour care
A Leeds hospital trust has been recognised for its outstanding treatment of brain Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been announced as a Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Centre of Excellence - one of 14 award recognises centres that provide excellent treatment, care and research opportunities for patients with brain tumours, with services measured on several trust was originally recognised in 2021 but had to reapply last year. More than 12,000 people are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour in the UK every year, according to the Brain Research UK Mathew, associate professor and honorary consultant neurosurgeon at the trust, accepted the formal accreditation in a London award ceremony on Thursday. "Our patients walk into this hospital and are given an awful diagnosis, but know the care they are going to receive is the very best," he said. The trust was singled out for streamlining its procedures to decrease the time from when a patient is diagnosed to when they have Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Centre for Excellence was established in 2020 to help ensure the best standards for Tessa, who died in 2018 aged 70, played a major role in securing London 2012 as culture secretary and later campaigned for the availability of further cancer treatments through the NHS. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
