Maggie's Starts Construction Of New Gartnavel Centre

16 November 2010

Nicola Sturgeon joins an event marking the start of the construction of Maggie's Gartnavel centre

On 09 November, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon joined People’s Postcode Lottery charity partners Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres to mark the start of construction on Maggie’s new Gartnavel centre.

With Maggie’s Gartnavel, Glasgow becomes the first city to have two Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. This greatly increases the level of care and support on offer to people affected by cancer across the west coast of Scotland.

Maggie’s Gartnavel is set to open in Autumn 2011. The centre will work in tandem with Maggie’s Glasgow (Western Infirmary) to provide emotional and practical support to people in the region living with cancer, plus to their friends and family.

Maggie’s Centre Head, Gillian Hailstones, said: “There is a high incidence of cancer in the west of Scotland and Maggie’s Gartnavel will be a wonderful addition to current services. At Maggie’s, we give people the space, the time, the skills and the support to understand and manage their experience of cancer.”

Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres became a charity partner of People’s Postcode Lottery in 2008. Since then, our players have raised more than £1,650,000 for the charity, which has cancer caring centres throughout Scotland, Wales and England.