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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Also called: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool
Overview
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.
Location
Liverpool, GB
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#393 · 16 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 16 from 8 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-10-01.
Matched to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, including child institutions. 162 works · 1,945 citations · 80% open access · 13% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
362022
342023
342024
332025
252026
Most works
- Arthur Sun Myint23 works
- Anna Claire Olsson-Brown20 works
- Joseph J. Sacco17 works
- Carlo Palmieri16 works
- Christian H. H. Ottensmeier14 works
- David Mark Pritchard13 works
- Ngu Wah Than10 works
- Amandeep Singh Dhadda9 works
- Adel Samson9 works
- Bartosz Chmielowski9 works
Most cited
- Ocular proton therapy
- Radiotherapy network
- Haemato-oncology and CAR-T
- Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Daniel Palmer
Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Liverpool; Director, CRUK and NIHR Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre; GIRFT joint clinical lead for pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic and hepatobiliary oncologyEarly-phase trialsAdjuvant chemotherapy
Liverpool medical oncologist, second author of ESPAC-4 and co-lead of ESPAC5, who directs the Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and leads the national GIRFT review of pancreatic cancer services.
Joan Spencer
Chief Executive, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Cancer nursingNetworked cancer careNHS management
Cancer nurse by training who became Chief Executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in March 2025 after six years as its Chief Operating Officer.
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