Clinical Vision and Principles

The Clinical Advisory Group developed a clinical vision and outlined the key principles for the Mount Vernon cancer service as a whole.

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Clinical Vision & Principles

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre should be a specialist, tertiary, regional non-surgical cancer centre.

It should facilitate access to innovative, high quality and efficient services, within the Cancer Centre or closer to home, by harnessing technology.

It aims to ensure equity of access, excellent outcomes and exemplary patient experience.

As well as specialist treatment and diagnostics, patients should have access to clinical trials and the full range of supportive care services during their treatment and follow up.

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre should provide system leadership, working in partnership with all referring local hospitals to ensure they are also able to provide high quality care to cancer patients, as appropriate.

• MVCC should be a consolidated centre of excellence for specialist cancer care, of sufficient size to attract and retain the specialist workforce needed to deliver the full range of specialist treatments, with the ability and opportunity to innovate to deliver best patient outcomes and experience.

• The range of treatments provided should be such that patients from the MVCC catchment should only expect to have to travel long distances (eg to central London or Cambridge) for very specialist care eg, very rare cancers, very specialist cancer surgery/interventional procedures, BMT, CAR-T Cell therapy. To ensure this, the MVCC service must have adequate infrastructure and be future-proofed such that it can both respond to and generate new developments and innovations in cancer care.

• MVCC services should be configured to enable patients to minimise travel for services, for example with virtual clinics, self-managed follow up, diagnostics carried out locally & one stop/ same day services. Services must be digitally enabled and integrated to do this effectively.

• MVCC must work in a network which facilitates care closer to home wherever possible and appropriate.