News story posted 21 August 2025
The Christie is celebrating receiving its re-accreditation from the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI), meeting its quality standards for cancer care and research, and being re-designated as a comprehensive cancer centre.
Following a peer review visit by the OECI team to the Trust in February 2025, we have now received our final report and accreditation certificate valid until July 2030.
The OECI is the main European network of accredited cancer research and care centres. Their mission is to provide cancer patients equal access to a high quality of cancer care in multidisciplinary teams; to ensure that cancer research and innovation are fully integrated into patient care pathways; and to put patients at the centre of their care.
The Christie was the first hospital in the UK invited to join the OECI in 2008 and the first UK organisation accredited as a comprehensive cancer centre.
The OECI noted that The Christie is an exemplar comprehensive cancer centre which had even further developed in the five years since the previous peer review visit. It was high performing in excellence of patient care and the quantity and quality of research, indicating leading research from the centre and much with high impact.
The Trust’s Christie Institute of Cancer Education was highlighted as delivering a comprehensive programme of continuous professional education as well as undergraduate and graduate provision in oncology which reaches out into general practice and beyond in the UK.
The peer review team also noted that they met highly motivated staff, striving for excellence and with a clear objective of patient-centred care.
You can find more information on the Organisation of Cancer Institutes on the OECI website.
