Leeds Gamma Knife Centre is based in the Institute of Oncology at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
The National Health Service (NHS) hospital known to millions of TV viewers as ‘Jimmy’s, St. James's Institute of Oncology (Bexley Wing) is the largest cancer research hospital in Europe. There are only five centres in the UK which specialise in the treatment of brain disease by a Gamma Knife. The Leeds Gamma Knife Centre, which opened in March 2009, is the newest of these. It is also home to the world’s most advanced Gamma Knife – the £3m Leksell Perfexion, manufactured by Elekta. In January 2010 it hosted an international conference “Extending the Horizon: Advances in Gamma Knife Therapy” in which new treatment possibilities for the Gamma Knife came under the spotlight in the UK.
In 2011 Leeds Gamma Knife Centre began a relationship with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to treat NHS and private patients from across all Ireland – ensuring continuity of care across the Irish Sea.