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Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology

I understand that a typical patient may make 15 daily visits to a radiotherapy unit during their treatment. I am informed that, based on optimum travel times for patients, the Aintree hospital in the north of the city was the preferred option. That will be a £15 million investment and will be funded and owned by the Clatterbridge centre, as well as operated by its specialist doctors, physicists and radiographers. I understand that the groundworks for a new building at Aintree hospital—I have noted that my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton is in his place—are already underway, and that completion is planned by the end of 2010.