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About The Christie
Our 2020 Vision
Our 2020 Vision was developed with patients, families, carers, staff, governors, members and other
key stakeholders. Our vision is built around 4 key themes:
Leading Cancer Care
The Christie Experience
Local and Specialist Care
Best Outcomes
It describes our ambition to be one of the top 5 integrated cancer centres in the world by 2020.
For further information about our 2020 Vision please follow this link:
http://www.christie.nhs.uk/media/310974/2020_Vision.pdf
The Christie Commitment
The Christie Commitment is the collective name for our principles and behaviours and our staff
engagement programme. The Christie Commitment is our promise to patients, their families and
carers about how they will be cared for at the Christie. It also describes how we will support staff to
achieve our 2020 vision.
Principles & Behaviours
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Our principles and behaviours underpin everything that we do. We expect all of our staff to
promote and display these behaviours at all times at work. It is not just what we do, but the
way that we do it that is important.
Staff engagement
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Staff engagement is a key ingredient in helping The Christie meet the range of current
challenges that it faces.
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Our staff engagement programme will help us engage with staff as we progress our vision to
be recognised as one of the world’s top five comprehensive cancer centres.
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Listening to our staff, we have agreed 5 pledges to support staff in work. The pledges are
shown below:
Key Facts:
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The Christie opened in 1901 and is now one of Europe’s leading cancer centres and the
largest single-site centre in Europe
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We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world
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Because of our specialist nature, 26% of patients are referred to The Christie from outside of
the Greater Manchester and Cheshire area
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We are an international leader in cancer research with world-first breakthroughs for over 100
years
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We were the first hospital in the North West to introduce robotic surgery
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We are a partner in the Manchester Cancer Research Centre with the University of Manchester
and Cancer Research UK
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Manchester was officially ranked the best centre in the country for cancer research in the last
national Research Assessment Exercise
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We are one of only two hospitals in the UK to treat patients with pseudomyxoma, a very rare
form of cancer
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We are one of seven partners in the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, one of only
five health science centres in the country
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Christie patients were the first in the UK to be treated by a linear accelerator
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The foundation trust has an annual turnover of £200million
The Christie charity:
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We are the second largest hospital charity in the country, bringing in more than £13million a
year
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The charity has more than 28,000 supporters and more than 350 national and international
companies that support the charity
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The Christie charity is the official charity for Manchester United Football Club
Patient numbers:
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We treat around 40,000 patients a year
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On average 400 patients are treated each day with radiotherapy, between 280-300 at main
site, 60-70 at Oldham and 60-70 in Salford
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We treat on average 200 chemotherapy patients per day, approximately 180 per day at the
main site
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The Christie has 173 beds
Who makes up The Christie?
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The Christie has 2,500 staff, 310 volunteers and 27,400 public members
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More than 300 consultants and 500 nurses work for The Christie
Patient care:
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We deliver approximately 100,000 radiotherapy fractions annually across three sites
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We deliver 45,000 chemotherapy treatments annually through the largest chemotherapy unit in
the UK on the main site and via six other hospitals
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We undertake 4,000 highly specialised operations a year for rare and complex cancers
Clinical trials:
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The unit is the largest single site early phase clinical trials unit in the world
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More than 400 trials taking place at any one time
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The Christie has doubled patient recruitment onto clinical trials over the last five years, making
it the largest recruiter of patients onto research trials accredited by National Cancer Research
Network
Education:
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The Christie School of Oncology provides undergraduate education, clinical professional and
medical education - the first of its kind in the UK.
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Our postgraduate medical education departments train 70 medical trainees while they are
based at The Christie
Proud moments in 21st century
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2002 – World’s first clinical use of image guided radiotherapy on a radiotherapy machine
2008 – Survival rates following surgery for bladder cancer recognized as better than anywhere
else in UK
2008 – First UK hospital to be accepted as a member of Organisation of European Cancer
Institutes. First UK organization to be officially accredited as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre,
becoming just one of only eight centres to have this status in Europe.
2009 – First trials in Europe undertaken for pioneering radioimmunotherapy cancer treatment
2010 – In September a Christie School of Oncology, the first of its kind in the UK, was
launched.
2010 – Signed a £14million private patient joint venture with HCA International in 2010 to
develop The Christie Clinic – a new private patient cancer unit.
2010 – Opened a £17million radiotherapy centre in Oldham
2010 – The Christie’s patient treatment centre housing the world’s largest early clinical trials
unit and largest chemotherapy facility in the UK opens
2011 – Opened a £17million radiotherapy centre in Salford
2011 – Two new surgical theatres opened
2012 – 2020 Vision formally launched
2013 – Christie Commitment formally launched
2013 – New Brachytherapy facility opened
Our 20:20 Vision exercise was launched