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Oak Cancer Centre - decision announced:

services to be transferred to Evelina

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A decision has been made regarding the closure of the Oak Cancer Centre for Children and Young People at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Evelina London Children’s Hospital has been chosen as the future location for the Children’s Cancer Centre for south London and much of the south east of England.

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This is the decision of leaders for NHS England (London and South East regions), taken at their decision making meeting on 14 March 2024. It comes after a rigorous process to decide the location of the future centre, including a public consultation and an options-appraisal process involving clinical advisers, parents, charities, nurses and research staff.

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Very specialist children’s cancer services will move from The Royal Marsden to Evelina London, once everything required for the future centre is in place. This will not be before October 2026, and there will be no sudden changes to children’s care in the meantime.

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As part of this move, it was agreed that conventional radiotherapy services will in future be provided at University College Hospital in central London.

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More information is available at: www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/childrenscancercentre/