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Getting to Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Rickmansworth Road, Northwood HA6 2RN

The Car parking at the hospital There are three entrances to Mount Vernon A Pay & Display parking scheme operates 24 Hospital leading to car parks (see below): hours a day, 7 days a week. Cancer patients have  Gates 1 and 2 are located on Rickmansworth a £1 concessionary parking rate but must register Road (A404). Both have large car parks. It is for this. Registration forms are on the back of often easier to find a space to park in these appointment letters or are available at the Cancer car parks, but they are further from the Cancer Centre Reception desk. Centre (approx 5 mins walk). On your first visit, take your registration form to SatNav users: use postcode HA6 2RN one of the following offices (Mon - Fri), where you  Gate 3 is on White Hill. This is the nearest car will be given a yellow Concessionary Parking Pass: park for the Cancer Centre, Chemotherapy  Facilities Office: 8am - 4pm Suite and the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre  Car Parking Office8am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm (LJMC). SatNav users: use postcode WD3 1PZ  Post Room: 8.30am - 12pm and 1pm - 4pm Get a Concession/Blue Badge ticket for £1 at the Pay and Display machine and display this and your yellow pass on the car dashboard. Your yellow pass can be used in any car. Blue badge holders do not need to register. Pay £1 at the Pay & Display machine. Please display your ticket and blue badge on your dashboard.

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Car Park H Rickmansworth Road A404 Bus Stop Gate 2 Mount Vernon All buses White Hill Treatment Centre

Facilities Office MVCC Car Parking Office Bus Stop COVID-19 Gate 1 331 & R21 Car Park Swab Pod B The Gate pub Car Park Gate 3 E Main to staff only entrance Northwood to Cancer Harefield Centre Ducks Hill Road

Car Park A LJMC Patient Car Park F Affairs John Bush to Chemotherapy Supportive A4180 Suite Care Unit

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© LJMC 2021 Lynda Jackson HHC232 [yellow] published 01/21 [review 01/22] Macmillan Centre Travelling by Car R21: – Denham – Maple Cross – Rickmansworth – Harefield – Mount Vernon From M25 Shuttle bus: This free service (fixed timetable) runs  Exit M25 at Junction 18 (Chorleywood & throughout the day (Monday – Friday) between Rickmansworth). (A & E department) and Mount  Follow the A404 (Rickmansworth Road) Vernon Hospital (main entrance). Details are towards Rickmansworth and Northwood. available in the LJMC.  As you approach Northwood, you reach an area of heath with Ye Olde Greene Manne pub on Travelling by Underground your left. Almost opposite this on your right is  Take the Metropolitan Line to Northwood White Hill for Gate 3. The entrance will be on station. your left.  Take the 282 or H11 bus from bus stop ‘C’ to  For Gates 1 and 2, stay on Rickmansworth the hospital, or the 331 bus from bus stop ‘A’ Road and follow the road round to the right. towards Uxbridge. The hospital will be on your right hand side. Travelling by Rail From Northwood, and Harrow  Use the Chiltern Railways service to  Follow the A404 towards Rickmansworth. Rickmansworth.  As you leave Northwood and drive up the hill,  Take the Metropolitan Line to Northwood Mount Vernon Hospital is on your left station. (Gates 1 and 2).  Take the 282 or H11 bus from bus stop ‘C’ to  For Gate 3, drive up the hill (Rickmansworth the hospital, or the 331 bus from bus stop ‘A’ Road), go past Gates 1 and 2 on your left. The towards Uxbridge.or: road bends to the left, then turn left into White  Use the Chiltern Railways service to Denham. Hill. Gate 3 is the 2nd turning on the left.  Take the 331 bus from bus stop ‘B’ towards Ruislip. From Uxbridge, Hillingdon and Harefield  Follow the A40 to the roundabout for the Travelling by Taxi B467 and follow the signs for Harefield into Mealings (taxi hire) is based at Mount Vernon Swakeleys Road. Hospital and provides a 24 hour taxi service.  At the first roundabout, bear left into Harvil Telephone 01923 844791 or 01923 823880. Some Road. Follow Harvil Road until it becomes vehicles are suitable for wheelchair users. Church Hill and then High Street.  At the roundabout in Harefield, turn right Getting help with paying for transport towards Northwood (Breakspear Road) If you are on a low income, you may be eligible and take the first left after the pond into for help with paying for the cost of transport to Northwood Road. and from the hospital for clinic and treatment  Follow this road until it goes through woods appointments. This includes bus and train fares (White Hill). and car mileage but not taxi costs.  Gate 3 of Mount Vernon Hospital is on your For information about eligibility, please speak right. Continue to the T-junction and turn to Patient Affairs (020 3826 2343) or right for Gates 1 and 2. visit www.nhs.uk and search for ‘Travel costs’. Travelling by Bus Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Patient (buses stop outside Treatment Centre, near Gate 2) Transport Service 8: Abbots Langley – – Mount Vernon If you are unable to get to the hospital by personal 282: – – Northwood Hills or public transport, you may be eligible for this – Northwood – Mount Vernon service. 331: Uxbridge Station – Denham – Harefield – For more information please see our leaflet Patient Mount Vernon – Northwood – Ruislip Transport Services (HHC265). H11: Harrow – Pinner – Northwood – Mount Vernon

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