A cancer information centre is being set up at Colchester General Hospital for patients, their families and carers.
The centre is scheduled to open in early 2003, inside the hospital's main entrance, and it is to be staffed by volunteers.
It is the idea of Pauline McCulloch, consultant nurse for Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust, who has an interest in making sure patients are well informed.
She said there was nothing like it in the Mid Anglia Cancer Network, covering Ipswich, Chelmsford and Colchester.
Marianne Appleton, a volunteers' co-ordinator at the Trust, said: "It will be open from 10am to 4pm, five days a week, and will be a place where people with cancer, their families and other carers can go to learn more about their condition and the help available in a relaxing and informal atmosphere."
The Colchester League of Hospital and Community Friends is raising £10,000 to furnish, decorate and help pay for some of the centre's IT facilities, such as special computer programmes, while the NHS is providing the office.
Published Tuesday October 22, 2002
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