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.

Location

Radiology

The radiology service provides diagnostic, staging, re-staging and interventional procedures for patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.

The department undertakes over 50,000 examinations each year, across services comprising of CT scanning, MR scanning, X-rays (plain film) , ultrasound, interventional radiology and nuclear medicine reports (including PET-CT).

We are based in Radiology 1 (department 41), Radiology 2 (department 34), the MR scanning department (department 38), the Pat Seed department (department 11) and the IPU (department 2).