# The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

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## TL;DR

One of England's few specialist cancer hospital trusts, serving Merseyside and Cheshire, with the UK's first proton therapy service (for eye tumours) and a new Liverpool hospital opened in 2020.

## Summary

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is a specialist NHS cancer trust with sites in Liverpool city centre, Wirral (Clatterbridge) and Aintree, providing non-surgical cancer treatment for Cheshire, Merseyside and surrounding areas. Its Wirral site has run the UK's first proton beam therapy service, for ocular tumours, since 1989, and its purpose-built Liverpool hospital opened in 2020 next to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the University of Liverpool. The trust delivers radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, haemato-oncology and CAR-T, hosts the Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre with the university, and is a member of the Liverpool Health Partners academic health science system.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool
- Tags: nhs-specialist-cancer-centre
- City: Liverpool, GB
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clatterbridge_Cancer_Centre_NHS_Foundation_Trust
- Official website: https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk
- PTCOG: particle therapy facilities in operation: https://www.ptcog.site/index.php/facilities-in-operation-public

## Connected records

- cancers: [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/), [Uveal melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/uveal-melanoma/)
- technologies: [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/), [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/), [Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy-systems/)
- people: [Daniel Palmer](https://onco.cc/people/daniel-palmer/), [Joan Spencer](https://onco.cc/people/joan-spencer/)
- institutions: [AMMF, the Cholangiocarcinoma Charity](https://onco.cc/institutions/ammf/), [Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance](https://onco.cc/institutions/cheshire-merseyside-cancer-alliance/), [Liverpool University Hospitals HPB centre (Aintree)](https://onco.cc/institutions/liverpool-hpb-centre/)

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