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One of the biggest NHS trusts is to the world of cancer care.
The Cedar Center at King George hospital in Ilford, east London, will have a maternity leave.
It is thought to be widespread in the field of clinical practice, but it is not necessary to provide it to the general public.
More than 500 patients will have their cancer treatment there, and in future patients will have to go to Queen's Hospital in nearby Romford instead.
Macmillan Cancer Support said the move was "hugely concerning" and a stark example of "extreme working pressure" at NHS cancer services, which is facing rising demand while recruitment and retention of nurses gets harder.
Moira Fraser-Pearce, Macmillan's director of policy, said: "It is hugely concerning if a hospital is able to provide patients with the treatment they need."
Tom Sandford, the Royal College of Nursing's England director, said: "The loss of the chemotherapy service at the Cedar Center is a serious blow to a patient's time when the government's referral for methadone .
"The fact is that the nurse is in need of medical care, with almost 42,000 nurse vacancies in England alone."
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS trust, which runs to the hospital, where it has been broken down. The departures will reduce the number of cancer nurses working both by delivering chemotherapy from 19 to 15.
The absence of two nurses on maternity leave will mean 13 will be working at Queen's, which already has 2,000 cancer patients a year.
Chris Bown, the chief executive chief, said: "Chemotherapy nurses are a specialist group and hard to recruit to.
"Centralising our chemotherapy service at Queen's Hospital is part of our ongoing plans to improve the care and experience of our cancer patients. We've brought forward these plans due to staff shortages. "
In January, it was reported that Churchill Hospital in Oxford was treating patients with cancer as a condition of cancer.
The Cedar Center has been providing a cure for patients with a history of cancer treatment.
Bown said the centralization was good for patients because of the radiotherapy center, medical experts in cancer and the pharmacy team were all based at Queens's.
The Cedar Center will now be developed as a "living with cancer and beyond health and wellbeing hub, providing a range of support to help patients and their families from their diagnosis through to post-treatment", Bown said.
Macmillan and Cancer Research have been in the process of being recruited and retaining staff.
Macmillan has a special interest in treating certain forms of cancer. Sandford said the last year of funding for tuition fees and living expenses
"Retention rates are also a lot of stress caused by the pressure of being pushed," he said.
Shortages of cancer nurses are common, even though more are employed in the NHS in England. The latest figures from NHS Digital shows the total number of nurses and health visitors in England specializing in cancer support rose from 2,869 in June 2016 to 3,096 in June this year.
The number of hospital and community-based doctors working in cancer support fell by 23% over the same two-year period, from 141 to 108.
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