Super scanner helps patients to relax during treatment

IT has become a tale of two CTs for Swansea Bay’s cancer centre after it took delivery of a state-of-the-art new scanner.

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The computed tomography, or CT, scanner represents an overall investment of £2m and comes complete with ambient sounds and images which the patients themselves control.

Previously the radiotherapy department at the South West Wales Cancer Centre, SWWCC, in Singleton Hospital had just one CT scanner.

But with the department treating 2,400 patients a year, and with new, complex planning and treatment techniques regularly being introduced, one was not enough.

CT operational manager Helen Streater said: "Having a second CT scanner with the Philips Ambient Experience is a fantastic addition for our patients.

"Not only will it help reduce waiting times for radiotherapy planning scans, but it will also improve the overall patient experience.