Latest News and Stories

The Engagement team are holding extra events for the residents of Luton, and Bedfordshire in general, to ensure their opinions are heard as a part of the review process.

The travel times to Mount Vernon for those living in Bedfordshire are among the highest in the catchment, and we want to hear what effect this may have on treatment decisions, and what the possible outcomes of the review may mean to residents.

An extra session for Luton has been scheduled for 22 March 2021, and for Bedfordshire on 17 March 2021. Visit the Location Specific Engagement Events page for details of how to register.

A third Locality Event for Hillingdon has been added to the schedule of Mount Vernon Review Online Engagement events on 22 March 2021.

The views and opinions of Hillingdon residents are essential to the review, with 14% of Mount Vernon patients coming from Hillingdon**, and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation trust owning the Mount Vernon site.

To register for the "Zoom" meeting, visit the Locality Event page

** 2017 - 2020 figures, patients resident in Hillingdon CCG

Following a question from a participant in a locality engagement event, the engagement team has circulated total patient numbers for Mount Vernon Cancer Centre for 2019 - 2020 - see chart below.

An essential part of the planning for the future of cancer services is trying to understand what the demands on that service may be. In considering what should be available and where, the projected needs of the population many years into the future must be considered.

Details on this research and how it may influence service design can be heard in the locality engagement events now being held.

*Daily average calculated on a 5 day working week, so 260 working days across the year

The engagement team have started an extensive range of engagement events with residents of the Mount Vernon catchment area.

Residents are encouraged to join the event nearest to the area in which they reside, allowing them to see the data and hear the information relevant to where they live. Locations include Watford, Aylesbury, Brent and Ealing and a dozen others.

Details, including how to book a place, may be found on the Locality Events page of this website

Councillor Ketan Sheth, Chair of the Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee of Brent Council, raises awareness of the Mount Vernon Review and engagement in a recent article in the Brent & Kilburn Times.

Councillor Sheth writes-

"It looks like the Watford Hospital site may be the best location for a new specialist cancer centre for this big area. They intend that the new Mount Vernon Cancer Centre would be managed by cancer specialists at UCLH. This combination of specialist management and a new cancer centre next to a general hospital would enable the team to undertake more specialist treatment and research, and to improve local access to care for all patients."

You can read the full article here

After a series of online focus groups in October and November 2020, a report summarising the views and opinions of the patients, their families and patient representatives is now available.

It is available in the downloaded here

The Mount Vernon Programme Board met on 10 December 2020 to consider the report on the patient engagement online focus groups held in November 2020, alongside the advice of the independent Clinical Advisory Board, in order to determine which service model would best meet the needs of Mount Vernon patients.

For more information, please see the latest Stakeholder Update

A series of online focus groups will be held January - March 2021 specific to regions within the Mount Vernon catchment. You can read more details, including how to register, here

Latest Stakeholder Update (December 2020) released. See the full document here