The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has expanded its private care provision with the opening of a new research-led diagnostic, outpatient, and treatment facility in the heart of central London. 

Located in Cavendish Square, the heart of the capital’s world-renowned and most-respected healthcare district between Oxford Street and Harley Street; the new facility offers world-leading standards of cancer care to patients in a calm, modern, and reassuring environment.

Housed within an Edwardian listed building, Cavendish Square is a dedicated and comprehensive cancer diagnostic and treatment centre and part of The Royal Marsden’s Private Care service provision.

It will offer patients fast and direct access to The Royal Marsden’s world-leading diagnostic and research active consultants specialising in a full range of cancer services.

Advanced treatment 

Home to a state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging suite offering MRI, CT, X-Ray, ultrasound, and mammography, experts will be able to identify and diagnose cancers earlier across all the main tumour types with other clinical specialties offered including genetics, plastic surgery and reconstruction, and pain management.  

A one-stop diagnostic service will also be offered where patients have direct access to diagnostic services, same-day scans, and test results. 

And the centre is home to a minor procedure suite and a medical day unit with bespoke treatment bays.

Cavendish Square will initially see both private and NHS patients and 

this model means revenue generated from private care is reinvested back into the NHS trust, ensuring all patients are offered the highest standards of cancer treatment and care.

Professor Chris Nutting, consultant clinical oncologist and clinical director of The Royal Marsden Private Care at Cavendish Square, said: “The Royal Marsden sees and treats 60,000 NHS and private patients every year and Cavendish Square is an exciting new development that will allow our multidisciplinary teams to offer world-class standards of cancer care to even more patients, diagnosing cancers faster with a targeted and personalised approach.” 

Leaders in cancer care

Shams Maladwala, managing director of The Royal Marsden Private Care, adds: “Improving patient access to better and more-rapid diagnostics is a priority at The Royal Marsden, and Cavendish Square is part of a broader strategy to diagnose cancer faster and earlier. 

“Thanks to our integrated model, patients seeking the very-best private cancer treatment can do so safe in the knowledge that it is backed by the strictest safety standards and governance usually only seen in the NHS. 

“Further investment in the trust’s NHS services from private care revenue provides the best of both worlds for both patients and clinicians, supporting The Royal Marsden in continuing to be worldwide leaders in the field of cancer diagnosis, treatment, care, research and education.”