Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
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Mount Vernon Cancer Centre is a well renowned, highly specialised cancer centre based in Northwood in Middlesex. Mount Vernon Cancer Centre is a well renowned, highly specialised cancer centre based in Northwood in Middlesex.
As a centre of excellence we pride ourselves in both our technical treatments and our patient care. Our staff are a highly trained group of people in non-surgical oncology.
Our facilities include:
- A chemotherapy suite, which treats around 150 patients a week using 11 chairs and 2 beds, providing systemic anti-cancer therapy using established and cutting edge drug treatments for all cancer types
- Inpatient wards 10 and 11, which have 47 beds between them including 2 high dependency beds
- A comprehensive radiotherapy service from the point of clinical referral to the first follow-up appointment
- Nine linear accelerators providing radiotherapy treatments, including CyberKnife and TrueBeam
- Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Outpatient Therapy service
- Iodine suite treating 120 patients per year
We treat from a large catchment population of almost 2 million people and some patients are referred to us from across the country into areas where we have specialist knowledge and expertise. Over 5,000 new patients are registered with us each year.
For more information please visit: http://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/mount-vernon-cancer-centre/
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Our vision is to be amongst the best performing for patient experience, clinical outcomes, patient safety and financial sustainability. Our key priorities are: keep our promises on value and quality; develop new services and ways of caring; and secure a positive future for the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.
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Over the last few days our staff, everyone from porters to consultants, have done their best to make sure they get to work and help our patients get the care they need. Given the weather conditions, once again they have risen to challenge - huge thanks
Members of the radiotherapy team at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre recently took part in the Annual Radiotherapy Conference 2018, hosted by the Society of Radiographers.
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