Macclesfield Project Review

The Christie team are ready to welcome patients The team of 53 staff are now in place and ready to welcome patients to The Christie’s new cancer centre in Macclesfield. Some staff are transferring over from East Cheshire NHS Trust and some are transferring from The Christie’s other sites in Withington, Salford and Oldham. Several have been recruited specifically for the new centre.

Covering a wide range of clinical and non-clinical disciplines, the team features: 4 consultants, 9 nurses, 18 radiotherapists, 3 engineers, 2 specialist nurse practitioners, 10 administrative staff and health care assistants, a physicist, an information centre co-ordinator, complementary therapists and will include a charity member to staff the new charity centre. The Christie at Macclesfield team is headed up by radiographer James McGovern from Altrincham. James said: “I am excited that we have recruited such a strong team for The Christie at Macclesfield, and I know that every single employee is committed to delivering the best possible patient care. This is the first radiotherapy centre in Cheshire and the first time The Christie has been able to provide a holistic local radiotherapy centre that also provides chemotherapy, outpatient appointments and other important types of patient care and treatment at the same place other than our main Withington site.”

Catherine Fensom is the operational lead for The Christie at Macclesfield. She said: “This new unit will have an enormous impact on the local community providing state of the art treatment on their doorstep. Having worked for both The Christie and East Cheshire Hospital Trust, I feel that I can bring a unique perspective to the role that will aid the integration of the existing chemotherapy service with the new radiotherapy service and other services. We are so lucky to have The Christie as our specialist centre, it provides treatments and trials that are only available in a handful of hospitals. Patients can be confident that they are receiving the best treatments available in cancer care.”

James McGovern - Lead radiographer for The Christie at Macclesfield

Catherine Fensom - Operational lead for The Christie at Macclesfield

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