Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Former name Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust
Made foundation 1 August 2006
Headquarters The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Bebington
Coordinates 53°19′55″N 3°01′42″W / 53.332028°N 3.028353°W
NHS region NHS England North
Type NHS Foundation Trust
Hospitals
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
  • Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool
Chair Alan White
Chief Exec Andrew Cannell
Website www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) is an NHS Foundation Trust, which specialises in the treatment of cancer. The centre is one of several specialist hospitals located within Merseyside; alongside Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool Women's Hospital, and The Walton Centre.

Currently head-quartered at Clatterbridge Health Park, Bebington, Wirral, the trust operates a network of cancer treatment centres at 9 sites and hospitals across Cheshire and Merseyside,[1][2] including a mobile chemotherapy unit[3] based at Sealand Industrial Estate.[4]

Prior to 1 April 2012 the trust was known as the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO).[5]

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

The main base of the trust also carries it's name, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. The site hosts the trust's proton therapy unit.[6]

Relocation

Since 2008 Clatterbridge Cancer Centre have been exploring the suggestion made by the Mark Baker Review to relocate to a site in Liverpool. In 2011 it was announced that this was going ahead,[7] and would take advantage of the plans for the redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[6] In December 2014 it was announced that eight local authorities had now given their stamp of approval to plans for a new £118m cancer hospital built next to the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[8]

The Clatterbridge Clinic

In June 2013, as part of a joint venture between the trust and Ireland's Mater Private Hospital, a private radiotherapy clinic was opened at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.[9] The clinic provides chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treatments using a dedicated linear accelerator.

Satellite Centres

To enable patients located to the north and east of the River Mersey to receive more convenient access to cancer treatment, the centre operates a number of satellite centres and clinics within the Liverpool City Region.

Broadgreen Hospital

Since 2010, the centre has run a nurse-led, day case chemotherapy clinic from a dedicated unit at Broadgreen Hospital. The unit treats lung, prostate and urological cancers.[10]

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool

Located on the campus of Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, adjacent to The Walton Centre.[11] The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool opened in 2011, as a radiotherapy satellite centre. At a cost of £17 million,[12][13] the unit was partly funded by The Marina Dalglish Appeal.[14]

Clatterbridge in the Community - Mobile Chemotherapy Unit

The Clatterbridge in the Community Mobile Unit, is a mobile, nurse-led, chemotherapy outpatient unit treating bowel, breast, lung and prostate cancers.[4]

Halton General Hospital

In 2009 the centre opened a chemotherapy centre at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Halton General Hospital site to treat breast, bowel, lung, lymphoma, prostate and urological cancers.[15][16]

The Linda McCartney Centre

The Linda McCartney Centre is located in a converted, former nursing college at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[17] It provides services for patients with bowel and breast cancers.[18]

The Liverpool Women's

The trust opened a unit dedicated to chemotherapy for gynaecological cancers at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, in February 2011.[19]

The Marina Dalglish Centre

Treating breast, bowel, urology and lung cancers, The Marina Dalglish Centre was opened in 2007, having been converted from an old special care baby unit.[20] Although this centre is also on the Aintree Hospitals campus, it is in a separate building to the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool, which was built at a later date.

Southport Hospital

Following a £1.3 million renovation,[21] the centre runs a nurse-led chemotherapy delivery service from Southport Hospital's Medical Day Unit, for bowel, breast and lung cancer patients.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  2. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Services at other sites". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  3. ↑ "EMS Healthcare: Medical Trailers". Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Clatterbridge in the Community-Mobile Chemotherapy Unit-Chester". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  5. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust News: Local cancer centre gets new name". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hunt, Helen. "£110m cancer hospital in Liverpool 'vital' to Clatterbridge". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Liverpool Daily Post: £94m plan to transfer Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology to Royal Liverpool Hospital site revealed". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  8. ↑ "New Liverpool £118m cancer hospital plans move a step closer". Liverpool Echo. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Bay TV Liverpool: Clatterbridge launches first private cancer clinic in Merseyside". Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  10. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Broadgreen Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Marina Dalgish Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  12. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  13. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  14. ↑ "Marina Dalglish Liverpool radiotherapy centre nearly complete". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Halton General Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  16. ↑ Jordan, Barbara. "Chemotherapy unit opens at Halton Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  17. ↑ "StellaMcCartney.com : The Linda McCartney Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  18. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Linda McCartney Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  19. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Liverpool Women's". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  20. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Marina Dalglish Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  21. ↑ Thomas, Joe. "Marina Dalglish slams Southport hospital after chemotherapy patients treated in nurse staffroom". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  22. ↑ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Southport Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.

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