The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

Christie Medical Physics and Engineering

other nuclear medicine departments in the North West. The group also provides scientific and regulatory advice to those departments and others. On a wider level, the group provides medical physics oversight to the national PET-CT contract provided by Alliance Medical Ltd.

Christie Medical Physics & Engineering (CMPE) is a division of the Trust providing physics and engineering expertise for treatment and research at The Christie and has been established for over 70 years. We provide peripatetic services to other NHS trusts throughout the North West region and have groups of clinical scientists, technologists and engineers at The Christie centres in Oldham and Salford. Our role spans service delivery, requiring the application of scientific skills and judgement, and original research driving innovation and furthering knowledge. We are organised into several operational groups supported by general management, central administration and mechanical engineering workshop facilities. The operational groups based at The Christie are radiotherapy physics, imaging physics and radiation protection and nuclear medicine. The Radiotherapy Physics group supports clinical radiotherapy services at The Christie and at our Oldham and Salford centres. The Imaging physics and radiation protection group include the specialist areas of diagnostic x ray imaging, radiation protection, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and optical radiation. The group supports activities at The Christie and also provides scientific support services to many hospitals in the North West and other private healthcare organisations locally and nationally. The nuclear medicine group provides diagnostic nuclear medicine, PET-CT and molecular radiotherapy services at The Christie. Research and development in these areas is carried out in collaboration with national, international and commercial partners. Through our regional radiopharmacy, we manufacture and provide radioactive tracers to The Christie and eight

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