CLATTERBRIDGE Cancer Centre is consultating the public on its plans for a multi-million pound specialist treatment hospital in Liverpool.

The trust is seeking people's views on proposals to develop a major flagship hospital on the same site as Royal Liverpool University Hospital and University of Liverpool.

The public consultation ends on October 19.

If approved, the new cancer hospital would provide expert care as well as carrying out groundbreaking research and clinical trials.

Although the design is still at an outline stage, it has been created with the varying needs of different cancer patients, services and staff very much in mind.

Every inpatient would have their own single room with access to natural light and external views. Two of the three ward areas would have their own access to outside space on the upper floors of the building.

Inpatients' rooms would run in a 'ribbon' along the perimeter of the new hospital, so they each had plenty of light and views across the city.

There would also be corridor links on two floors to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital next door, providing easy access to staff and patients travelling between the two buildings.

The new hospital would also include a dedicated teenage and young adult Unit that would bring together inpatient and day-case facilities for people aged 16 to 24 as well as operating as a base for those patients visiting the hospital for other treatments such as radiotherapy.

The proposals represent a £118m investment in expanding and improving cancer care in Merseyside and Cheshire.

They also include redesign and investment in its existing Wirral site, which would continue to provide outpatient services and care for around 90 per cent of patient attendances by people from Wirral and West Cheshire.

Project director Fiona Jones, from The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, said: "The new hospital would enable us to expand and improve our services and research activity, and bring us closer to the majority of our patients, who live north of the Mersey.

"It would also provide on-site access for our inpatients to intensive care and other key specialties, which we don’t have at Wirral and which is increasingly important as we care for more complex patients who have other health conditions as well as cancer. We are keen to hear people’s views via the public consultation.”

The Transforming Cancer Care public consultation ends on Sunday, October 19.

Full details of the proposals, a short film, consultation documents and questionnaire are available at www.transformingcancercaremc.nhs.uk