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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Former nameClatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust
TypeNHS Foundation Trust
HeadquartersThe Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Bebington, Wirral (Clatterbridge health park)
Hospitals
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (Clatterbridge health park)
  • Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool (Aintree University Hospital site, Fazakerley)
ChairWendy Williams
Chief executiveAndrew Cannell
Websitewww.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 headquartered at Clatterbridge Health Park, Bebington, Wirral, the trust operates a network of cancer treatment centres at 10 sites and hospitals across Cheshire and Merseyside,.[1][2]

Prior to 1 April 2012 the trust was known as the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO).[3]

In 2016 the trust established a subsidiary company, Clatterbridge PropCare Services Ltd, to which 13 estates and facilities staff were transferred. The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts. VAT benefits arise because NHS trusts can only claim VAT back on a small subset of goods and services they buy. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.[4]

Hospitals

The trust owns two hospitals, with a third currently in the planning stages.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

The main base of the trust is located on the Wirral near Bebington. It provides a range of radiotherapy and chemotherapy services along with inpatient wards. The site hosts the only low energy proton therapy unit in the United Kingdom, which provides proton beam therapy for eye tumours.[5]

Clatterbridge Private 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.[6] The clinic provides chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treatments using a dedicated linear accelerator.[1]

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Aintree

Located on the campus of Aintree University Hospital, adjacent to The Walton Centre.[7] The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool opened in 2011, as a radiotherapy satellite centre. At a cost of £17 million,[8][9] the unit was partly funded by The Marina Dalglish Appeal.[10] The Aintree facility provides Stereotactic Radiosurgery services in partnership with The Walton Centre.

Planned central Liverpool hospital

In 2008 a review was published into the provision of non-surgical oncology services within the Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network.[2] In this review; its authors, Professor Mark Baker and Mr Roger Cannon, recommended that an inpatient cancer treatment facility be built in Liverpool. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Foundation Trust announced in 2011 that this recommendation was being actioned,[11] and would take advantage of separate, but concurrent, plans for the redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[5] Approval to move forward with the plan for the new cancer hospital on West Derby Street, Liverpool was given by the eight local authorities in December 2014. This followed a public consultation, which ran from July 2014 to October 2014.[12]

In October 2015, it was announced that the planned hospital will have 11 floors, and also include blood cancer treatment facilities. The Transforming Cancer Care project is expected to cost £155 million in total. This includes both the building and equipping of the new hospital, and refurbishing the Trust's Wirral cancer centre. The new hospital is expected to open in 2019.[13] The provision of chemotherapy and radiotherapy outpatient services at the Wirral and Aintree hospitals will continue once the new central Liverpool hospital opens.[14]

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 and North West.

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.[15]

Chemotherapy at home

The Trust provides some chemotherapy in patients' own homes.[16] Specialist chemotherapy nurses from The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre currently visit patients at home in certain areas of Merseyside and Cheshire to deliver trastuzumab (Herceptin).[17] The Trust plans to expand the service to more areas and treatments.

The Countess of Chester Hospital

The trust provides some nursing staff to the Countess of Chester Hospital, allowing breast, bowel, lung and prostate cancer patients to be given chemotherapy on Haematology & Oncology unit.[18]

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.[19][20]

The Linda McCartney Centre

The Linda McCartney Centre is located in a converted, former nursing college at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[21] It provides services for patients with bowel and breast cancers.[22]

The Liverpool Women's

The trust opened a unit dedicated to chemotherapy for gynaecological cancers at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, in February 2011.[23]

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.[24] 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,[25] the centre runs a nurse-led chemotherapy delivery service from Southport Hospital's Medical Day Unit, for bowel, breast and lung cancer patients.[26]

St Helen's Hospital

The Trust provides chemotherapy and oncology services in St Helen's Hospital.[27]

Performance

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 866 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.1%. 92% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 73% recommended it as a place to work.[28]

In 2017 the trust was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission[29].

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. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust News: Local cancer centre gets new name". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  4. ^ "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b Hunt, Helen. "£110m cancer hospital in Liverpool 'vital' to Clatterbridge". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Bay TV Liverpool: Clatterbridge launches first private cancer clinic in Merseyside". Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  7. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Marina Dalgish Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  8. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  9. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  10. ^ "Marina Dalglish Liverpool radiotherapy centre nearly complete". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Liverpool Daily Post: £94m plan to transfer Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology to Royal Liverpool Hospital site revealed". Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  12. ^ "New Liverpool £118m cancer hospital plans move a step closer". Liverpool Echo. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  13. ^ "Designs for major new cancer hospital to go on show". Liverpool Echo. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  14. ^ "Action on Cancer" (PDF). Moreton Medical Centre. Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  15. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Broadgreen Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  16. ^ "Ellesmere Port Ford dealership gets cancer centre on the road". The Chester Cronicle. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Chemotherapy nurses hit the road to give patients their treatment in the comfort of their own home". Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  18. ^ "Services at other sites". Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  19. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Halton General Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  20. ^ Jordan, Barbara. "Chemotherapy unit opens at Halton Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  21. ^ "StellaMcCartney.com : The Linda McCartney Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  22. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Linda McCartney Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  23. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Liverpool Women's". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  24. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: The Marina Dalglish Centre". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  25. ^ Thomas, Joe. "Marina Dalglish slams Southport hospital after chemotherapy patients treated in nurse staffroom". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  26. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Southport Hospital". Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  27. ^ "Freedom of Information Act 2000 response" (PDF). St Helen's and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  28. ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  29. ^ "The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
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