Christie Hospital


The Christie Hospital in Manchester, 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, as the Cancer Pavilion and Home for Incurables. It opened at a site off Oxford Road in 1892. Together with the Holt Institute, it moved to a purpose-built facility in Withington which was officially opened by Lord Derby in 1932. The combined facility joined the National Health Service 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 building. There were no casualities and the majority of the research work housed in that part of the building was saved.
In January 2018, plans were revealed for a new proton beam therapy centre at the hospital were revealed, due to open later in 2018 and, in April 2018, plans were revealed to build a new state-of-the-art cancer research centre on the site of the former Paterson building, due to open in early 2021.