The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres
14/11/2025
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14/11/2025
Resident Doctors have begun strike action today, 14th November until 7am on Wednesday 19th November 2025.
Please attend your appointment with us as usual unless we contact you to say otherwise.
If you need to access care during this time:
• Our Hotline team is available 24/7 – including strike days – on 0800 169 5555 for anyone who is currently being treated at CCC or who completed treatment in the last six weeks and who needs urgent care or advice (e.g. due to treatment side-effects). Please note the hotline is for unwell patients only and not for appointment queries.
This morning, our team welcomed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting to Paddington Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) here in Liverpool city centre.
Paddington CDC - which is run by The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre on behalf of the NHS across Cheshire and Merseyside - has delivered over 60,000 tests and scans for the NHS since it opened in July 2023. These are tests for all types of health conditions, including lung, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal conditions, as well as cancer.
Centres like this are a vital tool in helping the NHS reduce waiting times and ensure patients receive any treatment they need as quickly as possible.
Wes was taken on a tour of the centre, meeting some of our staff and chatting with patients before talking to the media about how the NHS is tackling waiting times through initiatives like this.
13/11/2025
Resident Doctors are due to take industrial action tomorrow from 7am on Friday 14th November until 7am on Wednesday 19th November 2025.
Please attend your appointment with us as usual unless we contact you to say otherwise.
If you need to access care during this time:
• Our Hotline team is available 24/7 – including strike days – on 0800 169 5555 for anyone who is currently being treated at CCC or who completed treatment in the last six weeks and who needs urgent care or advice (e.g. due to treatment side-effects). Please note the hotline is for unwell patients only and not for appointment queries.
Meet the team this . They're passionate about raising awareness and supporting efforts to educate people about gastric cancer - also known as stomach cancer - including risk factors, prevention, and early detection.
The risk of developing stomach cancer increases as we get older. It is more common in men than in women. Early symptoms can look like other common stomach problems such as a virus or stomach ulcer.
Common symptoms of stomach cancer include:
- heartburn or indigestion that does not go away
- pain or discomfort in the abdomen
- loss of appetite
- feeling full after only eating a small amount
- unexplained weight loss
It's important to talk to your GP or practice nurse and get any symptoms checked, particularly if you are experiencing symptoms that are unusual for you.
11/11/2025
Today marks Armistice Day, commemorating 107 years since the end of World War One.
Our hospitals across the Trust will be joining in the national two-minute silence at 11am this morning to reflect and remember the service and sacrifice made by members of our armed forces, veterans and their families.
Please join us in the two-minute silence if you are able to.
09/11/2025
What Remembrance Means To Me, by John Perry - veteran and CCC Senior Healthcare Support Worker.
"People that know me, know and understand how proud I am to be a veteran, even if I don’t always discuss it or make a big deal of it.
As a veteran, remembrance to me is a time to privately reflect about my time in the Royal Navy and to remember my comrades and my brothers and sisters throughout my armed forces family, but especially my shipmate's past and present from the Royal Navy.
It is a time to reflect and respect the ultimate sacrifice made for our country by so many. Some of these I knew, but so many I didn’t. It is to me about not just remembering those who served in both world wars, but those who have served our country in all conflicts throughout history and up to present day.
I am proud to have served and be a veteran and at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."
09/11/2025
CCC Consultant Scientist, Tracey Smith-Straney, in 1990 when she first joined The Army as a private soldier, and today as a clinical scientist in The Army Reserve.
Tracey attended her local Remembrance Sunday parade to remember the service and sacrifice of those she has met and stood alongside in the past 25 years.
09/11/2025
For the Remembered, a poem by Ian Francis, PropCare Compliance Officer and member of our Armed Forces Staff Network.
On this Remembrance Sunday, may you take a moment to read Ian's poem, and reflect on the sacrifices made by those who served to protect our communities.
09/11/2025
For the Remembered, a poem by Ian Francis, PropCare Compliance Officer and member of our Armed Forces Staff Network.
On this Remembrance Sunday, may you take a moment to read Ian’s poem, and reflect on the sacrifices made by those who served to protect our communities.
08/11/2025
This we are recognising and celebrating the fantastic work of our radiographers, who play a crucial role in diagnosing and treating our patients.
At CCC, we have Diagnostic Radiographers who use advanced medical technology to diagnose illnesses, and Therapeutic Radiographers who use complex and highly technical equipment to deliver treatments such as radiotherapy.
Thank you to each and every one of you for putting our patients at the forefront of everything you do 💚
07/11/2025
You might have seen Paddy around our sites, working to manage and maintain the best possible facilities for our patients as PropCare Operations Manager.
"The most rewarding part of my job is definitely helping people. CCC is such a special Trust and being able to play a small part in supporting patients is truly rewarding. When I first started in PropCare, I remember someone telling me, 'there’s a patient at the end of everything that everyone does' and it’s absolutely true."
Read more about Paddy's career journey with us. including playing a vital role in CCC-Liverpool's opening during the pandemic!
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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.3m people across Cheshire, Merseyside and the surrounding areas including the Isle of Man.
We are based in Wirral, Merseyside supported by a £17m radiotherapy treatment centre in Aintree, Liverpool. We also operate specialist chemotherapy clinics in seven of Merseyside’s district hospitals and deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home service.
Together, this enables us to provide a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies (i.e. medicines) including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We are also the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region’s Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).
We are a tertiary cancer centre which means we see patients who have already been diagnosed and referred to us by other hospitals. We provide non-surgical cancer care e.g. chemotherapy and radiotherapy for solid tumours and blood cancers.
Our services include:
Academic oncology – professors and senior clinical lecturers appointed jointly with the University of Liverpool
Acute oncology – specialist cancer support in A&E and acute care in other hospitals
Chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer treatments (SACT). These are drug treatments for cancer and include gene therapies, immunotherapies and other molecular agents
Haemato-oncology – in July 2017 the management of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s Haemato-oncology service transferred to The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. This service provides inpatient and outpatient care for acute leukaemia; chronic leukaemia; lymphoma; myeloma and bone marrow (stem cell) transplant
Eye proton therapy – we have the UK’s only low-energy proton beam therapy facility for treating rare eye tumours
Imaging and pre-treatment radiotherapy (diagnostic imaging / treatment planning) – we have PET-CT, CT, MRI, x-ray facilities and treatment planning
Inpatient wards – we have 73 inpatient beds across our three wards on our Wirral site
Pharmacy – we manufacture all the chemotherapy doses for solid tumour cancers in Cheshire & Merseyside
Physics – our physicists provide essential scientific support for radiotherapy treatment
Radiotherapy – we have 10 linear accelerators (radiotherapy treatment machines). Six at the Wirral site; three at the Aintree site; one in the Clatterbridge Private Clinic
Research & development – we carry out leading-edge clinical trials of new cancer treatments. Our BioBank of donated tissue provides a valuable resource for cancer researchers
Supportive care – including physiotherapy, psychological support, palliative care, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, cancer information, financial / benefits advice, and survivorship / living with and beyond cancer
Triage & assessment – we provide rapid-access assessment clinics and 24-hour phone support for patients who need urgent advice or care while having cancer treatment
We are expanding and improving cancer care even further with the development of a new 11-floor specialist cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool. The new cancer hospital is due to open in 2020 and will provide highly-specialist cancer care for people with blood cancers and solid tumours. Although the Liverpool hospital will become our main base, we will also continue providing services at our current site in Wirral and our satellite radiotherapy centre on the Aintree site.
Being located in central Liverpool alongside the University of Liverpool and Royal Liverpool University Hospital will significantly improve care for people with cancer:
Our main base will be closer to the majority of the population we serve, which stretches from Southport down to Wirral and across to Widnes / Warrington. People who live closer to Wirral / Aintree will still be able to access care locally as we’re keeping our current sites
Unlike now, we will be co-located with a major acute teaching hospital providing rapid access to intensive care and other key medical and surgical specialties when patients need them. At the moment these patients have to be transferred by emergency ambulance to other hospitals
We will be at the heart of a thriving research and healthcare campus with the University of Liverpool, NHS and other key research partners, enabling even more ground breaking cancer research and clinical trials.
You can find out more about the new building here.
