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Cystic fibrosis support in the United Kingdom 
The Knight Centre at Frimley Park Hospital 
A major achievement of the Knight Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis has been to raise
the initial £600,000 towards the total £700,00 cost of the Knight
Centre for Cystic Fibrosis at the Fimley Park Hospital in Surrey. This is a
five-bed ward with out-patient as well as in-patient facilities.
The Knight Foundation has also 'pump-primed' the appointments of an additional consultant, secretary and data collection clerk for the unit. Dr Ron knight is president of the foundation, and is consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at Frimley Park Hospital. He is also an honorary consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He has been carrying out fibreoptic bronchoscopy longer than anyone else in the UK and has taught the technique to a whole generation of chest physicians. Dr Knight received a 1st class honours degree from Cambridge University, won the Medical Prize at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, and obtained experience at leading London teaching hospitals. He has over twenty refereed publications and has contributed chapters to a major textbook on Thoracic Medicine. The foundation is proud of the fact that the Knight Centre at Frimley Park was one of the best two clinics in the country for outcome measures, according to figures from the Cystic Fibrosis National Database. |