About
The Cobalt Appeal Fund is a leading medical charity founded in
1964, helping in Disease Prevention, Research, Treatment and
Diagnosis. Cobalt has been making a real difference to the quality
of life and the outcomes for those suffering from cancer and other
serious illnesses.
We have been a major partner with
the NHS in establishing the Cheltenham Cancer Centre and other
health care facilities such as the new £5.1 million all digital
Breast Clinic at Cobalt House. Our history page tells more of the
significant projects we have helped with.
The Cheltenham Imaging Centre is a part of our charity and
provides state of the art diagnostic services. We work to
provide cutting edge technology not available routinely within the
NHS or private sectors to help benefit high
quality diagnosis. These facilities enable the detection of
abnormalities within the body.
We are
dedicated to providing patients and other hospitals with better
access to diagnostic services such as MRI, PET-CT, CT and
Ultrasound and by continuing to improve efficiency we help to drive
down prices. Our unique diagnostic centre offer's MRI clinical
scanning at a variety of magnetic strengths (measured in Teslas),
on different magnets and fields. We currently utilise the UK's
first High Field OPEN MRI Panorama, 3.0 Tesla Achieva MRI, 1.5
Tesla Achieva and Intera MRI's. We also have Europes
First 3.0 Tesla Mobile MRI and the World's first with MultiTransmit
technology. Our scanners receive software and hardware upgrades
regularly to incorporate new technologies.
Our centre also hosts our Open PET/CT Scanner, a World's first
design in Positron Emmision Tomography scanning.
Cobalt undertakes and funds research projects that bring
tangible benefits to patients suffering from cancer and other
serious illnesses, and we work closely with our NHS colleagues to
bring about improvements to the treatment of cancer and other
illnesses.
Cobalt's Cancer Prevention service helps to educate the public
by providing clear accurate messages to help people make informed
choices on personal lifestyle habits.
Cobalt has also
supported the NHS breast cancer screening programme with equipment
and a new breast clinic for Gloucestershire.
Cobalt also provides training and
education for healthcare professionals in radiology and
oncology.
