The Christie Hospital in
Manchester
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, England, is one of the largest cancer treatment centres in Europe. It is managed by
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital was established by a committee under the chairmanship of
Richard Christie, a lawyer and academic, as the Cancer Pavilion and Home for Incurables.
It opened at a site in Lorne Street off
Oxford Road in 1892,
[ at a site in Chorlton-upon-Medlock now occupied by Manchester Royal Infirmary. The name of the pavilion was changed by the addition of "Christie" in 1901 after Christie himself had died. In 1929 it had 34 beds and was resorted to by patients from northern England and north Wales; it was then the only provincial hospital solely for cancer treatment. Associated with it was the Radium Institute (founded in 1914, which moved to Nelson Street in 1921). In 1928, the hospital had 14 beds, 374 in-patients and over 7,000 out-patients who were given radium treatment.
Together with the Holt Institute, the Christie Hospital moved to a purpose-built facility in Withington, which was officially opened by ]Lord Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869, known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley) was a British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ...
in 1932.
The combined facility joined the National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
in 1948, and it is now one of the largest cancer treatment centres of its kind in Europe.[
In April 2017, a fire, caused by welding work underway on the roof, burned down part of the Paterson research building. There were no casualties and the majority of the research work housed in that part of the building was saved. In April 2018, plans were revealed to build a new cancer research centre on the site of the former Paterson building, due to open in early 2021.
In 2012 it was announced that a new proton beam therapy centre would be built at the hospital. The machines were delivered in 2017, and the first patients were treated in December 2018.]
See also
* Healthcare in Greater Manchester
The "Greater Manchester Model" of NHS health care was a system uniquely devolved within England, by way of close integration with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and local authorities, led by the Mayor of Greater Manchester. In July 202 ...
* List of hospitals in England
The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts.
East Midlands
* Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire
* Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire
*Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottingham ...
References
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NHS hospitals in England
Hospitals established in 1892
Hospitals in Manchester
Specialist hospitals in England