A major cancer care centre on the Victorian-New South Wales border will become a fully public hospital in a move that has caught a healthcare provider by surprise and sparked community concern.

The Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre has been run by Albury Wodonga Health and Ramsay Health Care since 2016 and delivers inpatient and day oncology services for public and private patients across a catchment are of more than 250,000 people.

The centre has 30 beds, a 28-chair day chemotherapy ward and three radiotherapy bunkers.

Albury Wodonga Health said the decision to make the centre fully public followed a "comprehensive external review" in 2022.

Chief operating officer Linda Hudec said there would not be any changes to services and that no jobs would be lost.

"Our expectation is we'll

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