History and milestones
Bupa Cromwell Hospital has always prided itself on being at the
forefront of installing state of the art equipment therefore
providing our patients with the many advantages of the latest
technology.
Bupa Cromwell Hospital was the first UK independent
hospital to:
- Open a Private Radiotherapy Department (1982)
- Replace our radiotherapy treatment machines with
state-of-the-art linear accelerators featuring multileaf
collimators and portal imaging (1994/5)
- Install a Gamma Knife for the treatment of benign and secondary
brain tumours (1998)
- Perform a live related liver transplant (1998)
- Open a fully integrated comprehensive Paediatric Centre
(2000)
- Receive BS EN ISO 9001:2000 Certification in radiotherapy and
medical physics for the Quality Management System (2003)
- Introduce the Cancer Recovery Programme (2004)
- Ofer laparoscopic renal Cryotherapy – a freezing technique for
treating kidney cancer less invasively (2004)
- Offer one-stage prostate Brachytherapy for the treatment of
prostate cancer (2005)
- Install our first Tomotherapy Hi-ART System®, the world’s most
advanced radiotherapy treatment system (2005)
- Install a PET-CT scanner (2006)
- Install a second Tomotherapy Hi-ART System® (2006)
- Install the Gamma Knife Perfexion for the treatment of brain,
head and neck lesions (2007)
- Offer sentinel node imaging and surgery for breast cancer
patients all under one roof (2007)