New UK cancer centre in Liverpool

Proton Partners International plans to build a new £35 million cancer treatment centre in Liverpool.

Proton Partners International plans to build a new £35 million cancer treatment centre in Liverpool.

The cancer centre will be built in the new £1 billion Paddington Village, part of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter (KQ).

This will be one of four centres built by Proton Partners International in the UK and will make the company the world’s largest developer of proton beam therapy centres. Proton Partners International is currently building three other UK cancer centres, in Newport, Northumberland and Reading, and is considering further sites.

The oncology centre, which will be known as The Rutherford Cancer Centre North West, will offer radiotherapy, chemotherapy and imaging from 2018, and proton beam therapy will be available in 2019.

Rutherford Cancer Centres will each be able to treat up to 500 patients a year and treatment will be available to medically-insured private patients, self-paying patients and patients referred by the NHS.

Proton Partners International is also building a genomics research centre at the Life Sciences Accelerator building in Liverpool. This will be the first part of a health campus set to surround the £335m new Royal Liverpool Hospital. The genomics programme will support Proton Partners International’s broader research work with the University of Liverpool’s Physics Department.