On September 25th, the third Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre opened in Dundee. Localed within the grounds of NHS Hospitals, these centres were inspired by the late Maggie Keswick Jencks, a writer and designer who suffered from cancer in the latter years other life.
Maggie's Centre's trust chief executive, Laura Lee, was working as a cancer nurse specialist at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh in 1993, and recalls 'Maggie carne to us for a second opinion and then started a course in high dose chemotherapy and stem cell replacement. We started talking about the information and support aspects ]of being a cancer patient].'
Maggie believed that patients, and their ...