A more efficient treatment

Cancer nurses at Kent and Canterbury Hospital have been handed new technology to help treat patients receiving chemotherapy.

The mobile carts, funded by donations, provide nurses with an all-in-one facility for chemotherapy treatment. Each has lockable storage for drugs and electronic access to a patient’s prescription via screen.

Twenty-nine of the clinical drug treatment units – for K&C and the QEQM in Margate – have been bought with donations from the East Kent Hospitals charity and the hospital’s League of Friends.

Jennifer Jewell, chemotherapy eprescribing nurse lead, said: “We are able to provide a more streamlined and efficient service to patients.”

Picture: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Jennifer Jewell with colleague Carrie Merry, acting chemotherapy unit manager, and one of the treatment units