Royal approval! Queen opens futuristic Harley Street clinic

Published: 2 April 2010
By JAMIE WELHAM

HER Majesty the Queen opened a new pioneering cancer centre in Marylebone this week, writes Jamie Welham.

Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh she cut the ribbon at the £80million London Clinic in Harley Street, 78 years after the original hospital was opened by her late mother.

The state-of-the-art centre is the largest ­new-build in the private healthcare sector in the past 30 years and boasts world-leading radiotherapy, radio­surgery, and imaging equipment.

The Queen is pictured with Matron of the London Clinic, Amanda Hallums, and cancer patient Barbara Bright who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.