Brown helps the Christie celebrate

July 03, 2009

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Gordon Brown

GORDON Brown was today visiting Manchester's famous Christie hospital as staff celebrated winning back £6.5m lost in the Icelandic banking crisis.

The NHS stepped in to recover the cash after a massive campaign by Christie patients and the M.E.N. Mr Brown started his visit to the city by seeing the hospital's pioneering robot - which doctors use to perform highly accurate surgery.

He met the first person to be treated using the 'robodoc' - David Roghley from Tyldesley, near Wigan. Two days after his operation for prostate cancer, Mr Roghley was at home looking after his grandchildren.

Mr Brown also spoke to staff about plans to spend the recovered cash on establishing a network of radiotherapy treatment centres in Oldham and Salford to cut patients' travelling time.

He met Rita Orriss, a breast cancer patient from Oldham, who has to make a three-hour round-trip every day for treatment.

The Christie's chief executive, Caroline Shaw, said: "It is a pleasure and an honour to welcome the Prime Minister and new Health Secretary to our hospital and to show them our cutting edge equipment.

"It is fantastic to have the opportunity to explain our plans to transform cancer services for the region."

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The Higher Openshaw Exile, MANCHESTER (03/07/2009 at 15:22)

''Mr Brown also spoke to staff about plans to spend the recovered cash on establishing a network of radiotherapy treatment centres in Oldham and Salford to cut patients' travelling time."
I was lead to believe that all the cash that was lost had been earmarked for future research and that was why it was so important to get it back. Now Brown has it being spent elseware, is there something we are not being told?

The Higher Openshaw Exile, MANCHESTER (03/07/2009 at 16:14)

I can not believe there are no comments to this piece, it looks like I've already been censord, try again.
The money that was lost to the banks failing was supposed to be money for research. So what does it mean when 'Mr Brown also spoke to staff about plans to spend the recovered cash on establishing a network of radiotherapy treatment centres in Oldham and Salford to cut patients' travelling time'.
Are there strings to getting this money back? If there are we shouldn't be surprised with this fiddling lot. Over to you Mr Censor.

Maynard Kitchener Lampwick Manchester , (03/07/2009 at 16:14)

I Seen the police convoy go down deansgate this morning, I looked in the back of the Black car and thought, look at this thug getting a Police escort to the Courts.

Peter M, Mcr (03/07/2009 at 17:44)

So basically some other part of the NHS lost £6.5 million. What's there to celebrate?

Heather (03/07/2009 at 18:20)

The money was always for the satellite centres and that was how it was reported in the MEN.

Is It Me? (03/07/2009 at 18:57)

Gordon Who?

john davis (03/07/2009 at 20:15)

Pathetic man, clinging on to his last few weeks in power, he is a disgrace, he couldn't give a t**s about Christies nor Manchester nor the North West for that matter, he is a fake , a joke, and soon to be out of work. this is from a Labour voter , sorry ex Labour voter

EBYGUM, MANCHESTER (03/07/2009 at 22:58)

i am glad, that the cancer paitents will get the help needed, i come from a family, that have had cancer, from both sides, father and mothers line, but why was the money placed abroad, in the first place, could christes being who they are not get a good deal here, before the country had problems?
so christes lost the donated money, then it gets paid back by us through the goverment, so the intial
money plus interest is lost, so what are they going to do with the money now?

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