- Trust Information: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Specialities Available:
- Modules that could be signed off:
- On-call rotas that trainees might be expected to cover:
- On-site accommodation:
- Link to department induction guide or website:
- Available Specialist Interest Modules (Stage 3 SIA)
Trust Information: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
College Tutor: Jonathan Allen
Hospital Type: Specialist Oncology Hospital
The Christie is a Specialist Oncology Hospital based in South Manchester. The Christie specialises in surgery that is not routinely performed in other Trusts, including a number of regional, supra-regional and nationally commissioned surgeries and radiotherapy.
Number/names of sites that trainees might be expected to work at:
The Christie hospital Only. However, trainees are based at Wythenshawe Hospital and are allocated to the Wythenshawe on call rota. Trainees attend The Christies on their normal days. All anaesthetic work allocated would be on the main Christie site located in Withington.
Number of:
Anaesthetic/ICU consultants:
- 20 Anaesthetic Consultants
- 2 ICM Consultants
SAS grade: 8
Number of:
Inpatient beds: 257
Theatres:
- 5 theatres
- 2 Proton beam gentry’s
- 1 radiotherapy (photon) gantry
Critical care beds: 8 ICU beds
Specialities Available:
An overview of the work undertaken includes:
Colorectal
- Peritoneal Tumour Service – patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery & Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Advanced Rectal Tumour service – Multi-visceral, multi-speciality surgery (including colorectal, urology, gynaecology, plastics and Neurosurgery)
- Neuroendocrine tumour surgery (carcinoid, phaeochromocytoma, paragangliomas)
- Anal cancer
Urology
Retroperitoneal tumours (sarcoma and testicular tumours)
Penile cancer
Prostate and renal cancers
Gynae
All major gynaecology surgery including ovarian cytoreductive surgery & HIPEC; robotic surgery
Plastics
Skin cancers and reconstructive surgery
Clinical Oncology (Radiotherapy)
Anaesthetic services for paediatric patients receiving radiotherapy. This includes working with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital at one of the 2 NHS high energy proton beam centres plus paediatric radiotherapy.
Pre-operative assessment
We run a consultant anaesthetist led pre-operative assessment clinic for the anaesthetic high-risk patient and a cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) service that trainees are very welcome to attend.
Modules that could be signed off:
Modules that can be signed off include Stage 3 and SIA in both Major General Surgery and Perioperative Medicine.
On-call rotas that trainees might be expected to cover:
None
On-site accommodation:
None
