{"id":748641,"date":"2026-08-24T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:10:10","slug":"cheltenhams-new-12m-cancer-centre-reaches-significant-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748641\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham&#8217;s new \u00a312m cancer centre reaches &#8216;significant milestone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayward added she wanted to support the appeal to say thank-you to &#8220;the fabulous people who saved my life twice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project is mainly being funded by the Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A charity spokesperson said some patients had described the current oncology department&#8217;s rooms as &#8220;small and dark&#8221;, with clinicians sometimes having to sit on beds when discussing patients&#8217; health and futures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new centre will include light and spacious consultation rooms, with indoor and outdoor space that offers patients places to think and reflect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Smith, the charity&#8217;s associate director, thanked the &#8220;amazing community&#8221; for their fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are closer than ever to transforming cancer care for our patients and their families, as well as our incredible NHS teams, we are so grateful,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayward added she wanted to support the appeal to say thank-you to &#8220;the fabulous people who saved my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}