- Creator, Jess Warren
- Position, BBC Information
A south London council has stated it would problem the choice to maneuver specialist kids’s most cancers care away from St George’s Hospital.
Wandsworth Council stated it will refer the choice to maneuver the Principal Remedy Centre (PTC) care on to new Secretary of State for Well being Wes Streeting.
Remedy for about 1,400 kids aged below 15 is at the moment offered by The Royal Marsden Hospital at Sutton and St George’s Hospital in Tooting.
Wandsworth Council stated that 5 different native authorities the place kids obtained specialist most cancers care at St George’s have been “additionally anticipated to submit their very own referrals” to the secretary of state, and to ask for the choice to be reviewed.
This contains Richmond, Merton, Kingston, Surrey and Sutton councils.
The most cancers service at the moment offered by The Royal Marsden Hospital and St George’s Hospital treats kids from south London, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Kent and Medway and most of Surrey.
‘Severe considerations’
In 2021, new service guidelines set out that specialist most cancers remedy providers for kids should be on the identical web site as a level-three kids’s intensive care unit, however the Royal Marsden doesn’t have one.
This service is at the moment being offered by St George’s in Tooting. Youngsters’s most cancers care at St George’s will even finish now that Evelina has been chosen.
Simon Hogg, chief of Wandsworth Council, stated the authority had “severe considerations” about transferring kids’s most cancers care.
“We’re calling on the secretary of state to work with us, and 6 different native authorities, to have a look at methods to maintain specialist care right here at St George’s hospital,” he stated.
“Attending to Evelina hospital by way of central London visitors shall be difficult at one of the best of occasions.
“Travelling by public transport isn’t an possibility for susceptible kids who’re on immunosuppressant treatment.
“There must be a greater resolution to those plans.”
