Future
A £15 million sporting chance
The University of Cumbria, in partnership with Carlisle City Council and Carlisle Leisure Limited, is backing a £15 million plan to boost sporting facilities at the city’s Sands Centre. The proposals include:
• A new eight-lane 25-metre swimming pool, teaching pool and spectator seating
• A new sports hall and extended gym area
• Refurbished changing areas
• Enhanced conference facilities, exercise to music and reception areas
• Making the existing main hall events-use only, allowing it to attract a more diverse and exciting programme. Increasing the capacity and making the primary use of the main hall more flexible
• Offices, teaching space, sports performance labs, a conditioning room and sports injuries and rehabilitation clinic for the University of Cumbria’s School of Sport which is proposing to use The Sands Centre and The Sheepmount as its main base.
Once the proposal clears administrative and planning hurdles it could be in place by 2012.
£2 million X-ray equipment
University of Cumbria radiography students at the Lancaster and Carlisle Fusehill Street campuses now have access to the best X-ray equipment in the UK.
It follows a £2 million investment programme which will also help to develop a seven-year partnership project between the University and the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
Two X-ray rooms equipped for simulated training have been established at both campuses.
The Royal Lancaster Infirmary was also supplied with a top-of-the-range Philips Healthcare Digital X-ray scanner–superseding 90 per cent of the general X-ray equipment used by the NHS nationally–and will be used for patients and student training.
The University of Cumbria and the North West Strategic Health Authority jointly funded the project and will support the equipment for its lifespan of seven years.
Philips Healthcare will also offer placements to students at their laboratories in Eindhoven, Holland. Phil Harris, Head of the School of Medical Imaging Sciences at the University of Cumbria described the facilities as first-rate.
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They set us apart from every other university in the country and the new equipment at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary will benefit the local community enormously, helping it to provide state-of-the-art services, better than those found in the majority of the UK,” he said.
Top: The Philips Healthcare Digital X-Ray scanner Bottom: Signing the contract
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