“I’m incensed,” he added. “They haven’t taken into any consideration the discomfort of that journey. They don’t know how much that is going to cost. Will that journey be in an immune, safe environment?”
During Mr Venner’s inpatient stays at the PRUH, his children spent time with him each day after school while he was recovering.
But this would not be possible if he was treated at King’s, he said.
“The distance and the time is just too big. If they get told that they can’t see daddy until the weekend, that is really hard,” he said.
“If I get an infection, or dare I say it, next year it comes to end-of-life care, which could happen quickly with lymphoma, if that’s not here [at the PRUH] I will have my end-of-life care at Denmark Hill.”
A King’s College spokesperson said: “These proposals are being developed by hospital clinicians, with the aim of improving care for patients accessing haematology inpatient services at the PRUH.
“They also build on existing arrangements already in place, whereby some haematology cancer patients from the Bromley area who require highly specialist treatment are already transferred to King’s College Hospital for this aspect of their care.”
A petition calling for the trust to keep the specialist inpatient haematology cancer care at the PRUH has almost 25,000 signatures.
