More than 200 people have told health bosses they would choose not to have specialist treatment if a cancer centre relocates.<\/p>\n
They were responding to a consultation on proposals to move Mount Vernon Cancer Centre from Northwood to Watford.<\/p>\n
The new facility would form part of the planned rebuild of Watford General Hospital.<\/p>\n
One patient said the last thing people with cancer needed was difficulty in accessing treatment.<\/p>\n
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre offers care to about 13,000 people across the region.<\/p>\n
But health bosses say modern cancer care requires other facilities, such as accident and emergency and critical care, to be available on the same site.<\/p>\n
The Northwood campus has no such facilities so the plan is to move the cancer centre to Watford General Hospital, as part of its rebuild project.<\/p>\n
A two-month consultation exercise revealed nearly half of the 2,222 respondents supported the move, while 42% opposed it.<\/p>\n
A total of 12% (267 people) said they would “choose not to have specialist treatment if it meant travelling to Watford General Hospital”.<\/p>\n
A report on the consultation said the figure should be “interpreted with care” as it was a “hypothetical question about a proposed future service model”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 200 people have told health bosses they would choose not to have specialist treatment if a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}