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The Christie’s surgical and theatre nurses emerged as the winner of their category at the Nursing Times Awards 2023 for their work on dignifying surgery for patients with skin cancer and dementia.

The team at The Christie are celebrating the 5th birthday of the UK’s first high-energy proton beam therapy centre since it opened its doors in late December 2018.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist cancer centre in Manchester, is the first hospital in the country to use virtual reality as a distraction therapy for children and young people having radiotherapy.

The Christie has treated its first patient with proton beam therapy in a pioneering clinical trial for oligodendroglioma, a rare type of brain tumour.

Manchester’s specialist cancer centre, The Christie, has appointed Anthony Preston as its first fully-funded trainee integrative therapist, believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

Young cancer patients can now use Minecraft to explore what it’s like inside the proton beam therapy centre at The Christie, in Manchester.

See the patient pathway when you are approved for proton beam therapy at The Christie and see what to expect as a Christie proton patient.

If a Christie member of staff made a difference to you or a family member who has been treated at The Christie, please nominate them for an award today.

People from all over the UK and the world choose to come and work at The Christie. Without them, our hospital wouldn’t function and we wouldn’t be able to provide the care we do.

A 6-year-old boy from Chadderton is one of several patients benefiting from virtual reality (VR) distraction therapy to help him stay calm during his cancer treatment at The Christie.

The TORPEdO trial, co-led by The Christie, found that standard intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is as effective as proton beam therapy for treating oropharyngeal cancer, a type of throat cancer.

For more than 3 decades, Jacqui Stringer has helped reshape how care is delivered to cancer patients at The Christie - now she prepares to retire after 34 years.

The Princess of Wales visited The Christie today (Thursday 4 June 2026) to learn more about the healing power of holistic therapies, alongside clinical care, for people living with and beyond cancer.

A woman who has spent more than five years living with advanced ovarian cancer has become the first patient in the world to receive a pioneering new cell therapy.

View our list of awards and achievements won by the complementary therapy team at The Christie

The Christie offers one of only 2 high energy NHS proton beam therapy (PBT) centres in the UK. Teenage and young adults having proton beam therapy will also be assigned a youth support coordinator who can offer practical and emotional support.

The proton clinical outcomes unit at The Christie in Manchester is collecting data about proton beam therapy patients - learn more here.

“Bonnie is a fantastic member of staff, who goes above and beyond in her role to support people… Bonnie is a real asset to the brilliant staff at The Christie at Oldham.”

“[Guy] is an asset to The Christie and even if he does not win this award, he has made a lifelong impact to myself at the worst possible time in my life and I hope he knows this.”

A father of two from Nantwich, who was treated with proton beam therapy at The Christie, will share his experience with other patients