Our doctors, nurses and therapists can now have their multi-disciplinary team (MDTs) meetings about cancer patients' care with colleagues across Yorkshire - without even leaving the Trust.

We have teamed up with Yorkshire Cancer Network (YCN) colleagues to improve the way the MDTs work for the benefit of our patients.

The former lecture theatre at HRI has been converted into a hi-tech suite which enables top quality video - sound and vision - conferencing facilities. It seats 65 colleagues and been 18 months in the planning and nine months from the decision to go-ahead. 

Bradford, Leeds and York hospitals also in the YCN also have  new facilities. They are packed with state-of-the art Cisco kit and can cover conferences across the UK and even have the capability to go global. The suite has three 80" screens and two 55" screens. The project was a combined effort between THIS, estates and the oncology team.

Richard Hill, said: "It will make such a difference. It means our clinicians do not have spend so much of their time on the M62 when they could be seeing patients. The technology is amazing and places this Trust at the forefront of excellent IT supporting excellent care."