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.

Clinical oncology

These tumours may be cancerous or non-cancerous. Clinical oncologists are experts in providing radiotherapy and systemic treatments.

Depending on each patient’s diagnosis and individual circumstances, these treatments can be used to cure the disease, control it or to help to improve the patient’s symptoms. Clinical oncologists work closely with surgeons, medical oncologists, other specialist doctors and allied health professionals such as radiographers and physiotherapists.

Patient having bloods taken, Blood test, integrated procedures unit, IPU, Clinical practice educator, Katy Lenney, Pan Artists, Michael Comerford, November 2022

Systemic treatments

Systemic treatments are drug therapies that work throughout the whole of the body. They can be given as an injection, infusion, or oral medication.

Lee Whiteside, Rosie Hales, radiotherapy, MR Linac, scan, May 2022

Radiotherapy treatments

Radiotherapy uses high energy rays to kill cancer cells. Different radiotherapy techniques are useful for different types of tumours. At The Christie, we provide a range of different types of radiotherapy.