Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
| The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Former name | Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust |
| Made foundation | 1 August 2006 |
| Headquarters | The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Bebington, Wirral (Clatterbridge health park) |
| Coordinates | 53°19′55″N 3°01′42″W / 53.332028°N 3.028353°W |
| NHS region | NHS England North |
| Type | NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Chair | Wendy Williams |
| Chief Exec | Andrew Cannell |
| Website | www |
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) is an NHS Foundation Trust, which specialises in the treatment of cancer. The centre is one of several specialist hospitals located within Merseyside; alongside Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool Women's Hospital, and The Walton Centre.
Currently head-quartered at Clatterbridge Health Park, Bebington, Wirral, the trust operates a network of cancer treatment centres at 10 sites and hospitals across Cheshire and Merseyside,.
Prior to 1 April 2012 the trust was known as the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO).
The trust owns two hospitals, with a third currently in the planning stages.
The main base of the trust also carries its name, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. This Wirral site hosts the trust's proton therapy unit, which provides low-energy proton beam therapy for eye tumours.
In June 2013, as part of a joint venture between the trust and Ireland's Mater Private Hospital, a private radiotherapy clinic was opened at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. The clinic provides chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treatments using a dedicated linear accelerator.[1]
Located on the campus of Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, adjacent to The Walton Centre. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool opened in 2011, as a radiotherapy satellite centre. At a cost of £17 million, the unit was partly funded by The Marina Dalglish Appeal.
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