Southampton General Hospital
The Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Southampton General Hospital is designed for 16-24 year olds. It has six inpatient beds and four areas for day care. All bedrooms are equipped with comfy soft furnishings, TV, education and gaming spaces and personal fridges. We also provide free Teenage Cancer Trust wifi.
On the unit, you’ll be looked after by a friendly, expert team including nurses and youth workers who specialise in supporting teenagers and young adults with cancer.
You’ll also meet plenty of other experts in different areas of cancer treatment, such as doctors, dietitians and physiotherapists. You might hear this being called the multidisciplinary team, or MDT for short.
If you’re an inpatient, this means you’ll stay on the unit overnight, sometimes for several nights at a time depending on your health and the type of treatment you’re having.
You might also visit as an outpatient, which means you’ll go in during the day for treatment and other appointments, but won’t stay in hospital overnight.
We opened the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Southampton General Hospital in September 2013. We also funded an upgrade of the TVs and sound systems in all nine bone marrow transplant bedrooms.
Support across the wider region
If you live a long way from Southampton, you might have the choice to be treated closer to home, depending on your age and the treatment you’re having.
Teenage Cancer Trust also supports specialist nurses and specially designed spaces at other hospitals across the surrounding region as part of our outreach service.
Your care team will discuss this with you if it might be a suitable option.
Wherever you’re treated, we’re here to make sure you get the best possible care and have all the information and support you need throughout treatment and beyond.
Facilities at Southampton General Hospital
The architect who designed the Southampton unit involved young people with experience of cancer treatment in as much of the design as possible.
For example, young people said they often found long hospital corridors intimidating, so the corridor has curved pillars to make it more welcoming. Likewise, young people don’t always want to look in the mirror while in hospital, so the mirrors are on the inside of the bathroom cabinet instead of the wall to give you a choice.
Everything on the unit is designed to help you feel more comfortable and in control, to connect with others your age going through cancer too, and to keep up with friends, studies and everything that’s important in your life as a teenager or young adult.
Family and friends are welcome to visit, and there’s space for parents, carers or partners to stay over. Facilities include:
- Six inpatient en-suite bedrooms with sofa beds for family and friends to stay overnight, study area, fridge, gaming and TVs
- Four day care treatment areas
- Kitchen with microwave, toasters, coffee machines and full size oven
- Parent/family facilities
- Pool table and jukebox
2013
Opened
16-24
Year olds
6
en-suite bedrooms
See inside the Southampton General Hospital unit
You’ll be welcomed to the unit by friendly faces at our reception area.
The main corridor has six side rooms to the left, and the nursing and treatment rooms on the right.
The recreation room has a TV and gaming area, plus a jukebox.
The six side rooms have a TV, en-suite, study space and a day bed for parents and carers.
