Harrogate plans the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre
Cancer services in Harrogate are being improved with news this week of plans for a new multi-million pound treatment centre. Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, has submitted a planning application to Harrogate Borough Council for the new £3.5m unit, which will be named the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre after its benefactor. Paula Middlebrook, lead cancer nurse at the hospital trust, said: "Macmillan recently rated our cancer services here in Harrogate as the best in the country, from the experiences of patients. Now we have the chance to make our service world class by building this new cancer unit to offer state-of-the-art treatment and facilities." Richard Ord, trust chief executive, added: "In these challenging financial times for the NHS we would not be able to do this without the amazing generosity of Sir Robert Ogden and Macmillan Cancer Support and we are extremely grateful for their involvement. We want to offer cancer patients across Yorkshire the very best we possibly can and this new unit will make that possible." If planning permission is granted, work is expected to start later in the summer.