Welcome to the Thornbury Gamma Knife Centre

Gamma Knife® surgery at the BMI Thornbury Hospital offers a safe and effective treatment for a range of conditions without the need for invasive brain surgery.

Gamma Knife® surgery is a well established method to treat selected targets in the brain without the need for the surgeon to make incisions on your head. Instead, very precisely focused beams of radiation are directed to the treatment area in the brain.

Thornbury Hospital in Sheffield is part of BMI Healthcare, Britain's leading provider of independent healthcare with nearly fifty hospitals nationwide performing more complex surgery than any other private healthcare provider in the country. Our commitment is to quality and value, providing facilities for advanced surgical procedures together with friendly, professional care.

For more than 50,000 patients every year, Gamma Knife® surgery offers an alternative treatment procedure that is simple, painless and straightforward.  See what our patients say about us

What is Gamma Knife ?

Gamma Knife surgery is a unique method that delivers extremely focused radiation beams to targets in the brain. The radiation source used is called cobalt. The shape and dose of the radiation is optimised to hit only the target, without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. More in depth information is available on our Treatment pages

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We hope you will find this website informative and useful if you have any questions at all, please contact us by phone or email and we will endeavour to help.