Benefits :: Transforming Cancer Care

The new centre will:

Increase capacity and choice by offering radiotherapy at three sites rather than two and expanding The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre to meet increasing demand for specialist cancer care.
Provide services at a central location that’s closer to home for the majority of patients (63%) and has excellent public transport links.
Be on the same health campus as the University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Cancer Research UK’s Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit and other key research partners.
Have on-site access to the intensive care, medical and surgical specialties in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Be a hub for a much wider range of world-class cancer research and clinical trials, enabling people in Merseyside and Cheshire to benefit from the latest and most advanced forms of cancer treatment.

Blood cancers

On 1July 2017 the management of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital haemato-oncology service and its 120 members of staff transferred to The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, bringing together the care of people with blood cancers with care for solid tumours for the first time in the region. The outpatient, inpatient and day case haemato-oncology services will continue to be delivered in their current location within The Royal Liverpool University Hospital before moving into Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool in 2020.

This means that people from Liverpool with proven or suspected blood cancer will continue to receive their treatment (and investigations) as they do now but in 2020 will benefit from:

Access to the highest level of medical expertise, while still being able to have their treatment locally wherever possible;
Equity of access with patients who have solid tumours to the best cancer support care including counselling, psychological and peer support, financial advice and therapies; and Enhanced access to innovative treatments through clinical trials.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is currently working on further proposals to improve care by bringing services into the community and expanding The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s chemotherapy at home service to include haemato-oncology patients.