Look at what Liverpool’s new 11-storey cancer hospital could look like

Look at what Liverpool’s new 11-storey cancer hospital could look like

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NHS bosses have applied for planning permission to build a new 11-storey cancer hospital in Liverpool city centre.

Wirral’s Clatterbridge Cancer Centre want to open a new 110-bed facility next to the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

A planning application has now been submitted to Liverpool council, with a decision due in the coming months.

The new hospital will contain 40 beds for blood cancer patients, including leukaemia and lymphoma sufferers, and 70 for patients being treated for other forms of the disease.

The new hospital is part of a £157m programme to transform cancer care across Merseyside.

The current Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Wirral will remain open as an outpatient facility after the new hospital is built in Liverpool.

Andrew Cannell, chief executive of the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, said: “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform cancer care for people in Merseyside and Cheshire with a major new specialist hospital, centrally located for the population we serve and on the same thriving healthcare and research campus as the University of Liverpool , the new Royal Liverpool Hospital and other key partners.

“It has unparalleled potential to firmly establish Liverpool as a leading centre of excellence for the best cancer care and most innovative research and clinical trials, as well as expanding our capacity to meet the rising demand for specialist treatment even closer to home for our patients.

“We are tremendously excited about the benefits it will bring for people with cancer, in combination with services at our existing sites in Wirral and Aintree , our clinics in hospitals across Merseyside and Cheshire and our expanding programme of chemotherapy and other treatment in patients’ own homes.”

The cancer centre’s board of directors is due to have a final vote on the plans later this year.

If the deal is approved, building work will begin off West Derby Street this autumn. The new hospital will then open in 2019.