Welcome to the Virtual Hospital Departments

Although individual hospitals provide details about different departments and the way in which those departments work, the Royal College of Radiologists felt that there remained a need to address some of the fears that are associated with a visit to the hospital. We felt that this was particularly the case when dealing with cancer and also when dealing with x-rays.

In this virtual hospital you will find two departments. The Department of Clinical Oncology, where much of the treatment of cancer takes place and the Department of Clinical Radiology, where x-rays and scans are performed in the process of diagnosis of a wide variety of different conditions.

Each Department has a number of different rooms reflecting hospital departments in real life. Hopefully by visiting the Departments you will discover what to expect when you visit the hospital for diagnosis or treatment. The Virtual Hospital Departments are interactive with descriptions of the equipment and of the people that you are likely to meet. We plan to include the experiences of real patients so that you can learn from others what you can expect from your visit.

We hope that these Virtual Hospital Departments will be evolutionary. We hope that feedback from our patients can be fed into the site to more nearly reflect real life experience. Most of all however we hope that this visit to our virtual hospital will make the visit to the real hospital a little less frightening and the outcome of your test or your treatment a little easier to understand.