Phase 2 (1962 to 1970)
The second phase of the development was completed by 1962 when two further buildings were adapted as hostel wards. The number of beds available rose to 121, with 15 hostel beds in Clatterbridge main hospital. In this phase, the physics workshop and the mould room were improved and a radium store and a medical photographic unit were opened in adapted huts.
New equipment was added, providing the services of deep and superficial x-ray treatment sets. Demand for radiotherapy increased rapidly and, with up to 90 patients a day being treated on the linear accelerator, a shift system of working had to be introduced.
In 1966 a second complete treatment unit with a new linear accelerator was installed and began to treat patients at the start of 1968. This was followed shortly after by the addition of two Cobalt units, as well as planning and dose calculation rooms.