History
St Johns Hospital has provided oncology services as part of its other services, such as Pulmonology, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Haemat-oncology and autologous transplants for Myeloma as part of Haematology, for many decades. The Radiation Oncology service was made available in 1995 in collaboration with the Curie Cancer Centre situated within the campus. Palliative care began in 2000 as part of the services offered by the Dept of Anaesthesiology and became an independent department in 2008. Medical Oncology as a separate speciality began in July 2009. In 2010, the hospital management decided to build the current Oncology Centre based on a proposal developed through the Oncology Task Force Group. The multi-storey structure of St John's Oncology Centre became fully functional in 2011. Paediatric Hemato-oncology became an independent department in 2012 and our new Bone Marrow Transplant Unit came into being in 2019. Efforts towards initiating nuclear medicine services began in 2020 and by 2023 the department of Nuclear Medicine become fully operational.
Profile
- Medical Oncology - 3 faculty members
- Gynaecology Oncology - 4 faculty members
- Surgical Oncology - 4 faculty members
- Radiation Oncology - 4 faculty members
- Paediatric Haemat-oncology - 4 faculty members
- Nuclear Medicine - 2 faculty members
Specialities
- All site malignancies
- Palliative care across settings: in-patient, out-patient, home-based care.
- Palliative Care across patient sub-sets: paediatric, geriatric, nephrology, pulmonology, haematology and solid tumours.
Palliative and Supportive Care
We provide clinical palliative care services to oncology patients across the spectrum in addition to non-oncology patients with chronic conditions from departments such as pulmonology, haematology and nephrology, providing continuity of care across various settings including outpatient, inpatient and homecare settings.
The hospital has an ingoing fellowship programme with 2 postgraduate intakes per year (duration of this Board certified Fellowship is three years). In addition, we provide a recognised clinical placement for several national training programmes including an essential certificate course in Palliative Care, National Fellowship in Palliative Medicine and Palliative Nursing Care.
The palliative care team includes:
- Physician Faculty - 4 teaching faculty and one tutor
- Nurse faculty and nurses - 4
- Medical Social Worker - 1
- Psychologist / Counsellor - 2
- Physiotherapist - 1
- Post-Graduates - 2
- Junior Residents -
- 3 Secretary - 1
- Coordinator - 1
Last update: September 2024
