About the Maguire Communication Skills Training Unit

Strike action between Monday 2 October to Thursday 5 October 2023

Consultants and junior doctors at The Christie will both strike between 7am on Monday 2 October to 7am on Thursday 5 October 2023. Both consultants and junior doctors will still provide emergency care during their strikes.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected by this strike. If you have an appointment at the Trust on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. There may be longer waits than usual in clinics during this time.

Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

The Maguire Communication Skill Training Unit are a specialist team of communications skills trainers based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. We offer workshops in our dedicated training facility at the School of Oncology based in Manchester and online via Zoom.

Our mission

Our mission is to enhance the patient experience and wellbeing, and increase professional confidence, job satisfaction and resilience through compassionate, effective communication. Using an evidence-based approach, we develop training materials for all areas of health and care delivery.

Our expertise

Our expertise is in translating values such as compassion, collaboration and respect into an evidence-based skill set that can be embedded into every role at every stage of a health provider’s career, in a way that links to national drivers and organisational needs for quality improvement in care delivery.

Our approach

Within the Maguire Communication Skills Training Unit, we believe communicating effectively is essential to a positive, inclusive and people-centred culture in which staff feel valued, empowered, and supported to deliver the best experience and outcomes for our patients.