Radiotherapy physics
The UHS radiotherapy service is part of the Thames Valley and Wessex Operational Delivery Network. The radiotherapy department is based in Southampton General Hospital (SGH) with a satellite site based in Candover Building, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH).
The UHS radiotherapy service forms part of Southampton oncology centre, a comprehensive cancer centre with close links to the University of Southampton and Cancer Research UK. The centre provides a high degree of site specialisation with multidisciplinary clinics for all the major cancers, serving a local population of 1.7 million, and larger population for a range of regional cancer services. UHS delivers radiotherapy services to the population of East Wiltshire, West and North Hampshire, a proportion of the Isle of Wight and Channel Island patients, as well as more specialised radiotherapy to the Wessex region as a whole.
Our radiotherapy department strives to provide compassionate, high quality and state-of-the-art radiotherapy treatment for patients referred for treatment. We are accredited by CHKS against ISO 9001:2015 and oncology standards.
The radiotherapy physics team is integral to the radiotherapy service and provides technical and scientific services for the delivery and development of excellent radiotherapy services.
At SGH we have seven linear accelerators delivering a range of treatments including image and surface guided (IGRT/SGRT), intensity modulated (IMRT/VMAT), intra operative electron (IOERT) and stereo tactically guided (SRS/SABR), radiotherapy treatments.
SGH has two dedicated wide bore CT scanners. Treatment planning for external beam treatments is performed on Pinnacle and ELEMENTS treatment planning systems, while using Prosoma for virtual stimulation.
We support a comprehensive brachytherapy service including high dose rate (HDR) MR image guided gynaecological treatments and ultrasound guided HDR and seed brachytherapy for prostate treatments.
At the Basingstoke satellite we have an additional linac and CT scanner providing local services to the local population.
The radiotherapy physics group also supports an intraoperative radiotherapy service using intrabeam based at Winchester Hospital.