Cancer Council NSW will begin the new Transport to Treatment service on Monday. It will link patients who live within 200 kilometres of Dubbo with a volunteer driver and car.

Dubbo Oncology Unit nursing unit manager Tim Williams said the service had been a long-time coming.

“The patients will not have to rely on family members or friends to drive them here and that saves a big expense on the pockets of those family members and friends. They also get to meet these great volunteers and have a good yarn along the way,” Mr Williams said.

There are 50 volunteers who have put their hands up to be drivers.

Cancer Council Western NSW community programs manager Camilla Barlow said the Transport to Treatment initiative was already running in Orange.

“We’ve got two cars pretty much jam packed full everyday, Monday to Friday.”