Tenovus launched the mobile unit nine months ago and has so far had 3,000 people on board in 24 locations across Wales. Innovatively designed to deliver cancer services to patients, it is a World’s first, bringing care and support to people in their communities in the form of chemotherapy, practical advice on welfare rights, bereavement support and counselling, health awareness and nutritional advice. It is funded entirely by the charity and receives no NHS funding. (November 2009)