Latest Winner

Pat Boon, Front of House Receptionist, Radiotherapy

She is always polite and friendly to all the patients and staff which does not go unnoticed.

Several patients remark on her friendly and engaging manner and she receives countless thank you cards and boxes of chocolates from patients whom she builds a relationship with as they come for daily treatment.

Pat remembers patient's names and always addresses them personally in a professional manner.

Lucy Allard, Clinical Trials Administrator

"Lucy began as a clinical trials assistant in February last year. After just 3 weeks she had a bleed in her brain and was off work for a while. She returned to work as
soon as she could and has showed amazing determination and motivation. She is
keen to work and makes a real difference. She does a great job and is her own
worst critic! We think she is amazing"

Fiona Martin - Procedure Team Nurse Specialist

"Fiona has been working at The Christie for 28 years and worked as chemotherapy sister on Nathan House prior to joining the procedure team.

Fiona has provided an invaluable to contribution to the team from day one and is seen by many as 'Mum' in the team. Her paternalistic care extends from the patients through to the individual team members."

Richard Cosgrove - Front of House Supervisor

"Richard has been with us since November 2011 and ensures that the Starbucks coffee shop runs like clockwork. He has a brilliant team behind him and they all deliver the best customer service possible. He has a friendly and pleasant manner and works really hard to ensure that patients and staff are served as quickly as possible. Richard is leading the team in the right direction and is good with both the customers and the staff and is very highly thought of. He really deserves the award"

Geraldine Wright - Healthcare Assistant

"Geraldine is amazing at what she does, she goes beyond her job role and is always thinking of what could be improved to make the hospital stay a better experience for the patients. She is very proactive in regards to the protected mealtimes and she has helped to make it more efficient on the ward. She gets a lot of praise from the patients and relatives and just gets on with her job without complaining."

Lucy Davidson

Lucy works specifically for the colorectal team and helps to look after colorectal patients who are on radiotherapy treatment.  She always goes the extra mile.

Emma Shepherd,

Emma is an excellent team player and consequently is well liked and respected by all her colleagues. Despite an often busy workload Emma is always willing and ready to support her colleagues and is a valued member of our team.

Caroline Leatherbarrow,

Caroline is a medical secretary and PA for Dr Hubner. She is a great team player and well respected by her colleagues and patients.

Marzena Ewa Zacharska-Hirsch, Staff Nurse

Marzena is employed as a staff nurse on ward 12.She is a great team player and well respected by all the team due to the support she offers her colleagues.

Stuart Davidson

Stuart has worked for the trust for over 10 years, working his way up from ICT Helpdesk, to ICT Engineer, to ICT Systems Engineer and more recently ICT Support Manager. 

 Carol McDonald

Carol McDonald is a senior Radiographer in the Radiotherapy department.  She joined the Christie August 2009 after completing her undergraduate degree at Cardiff University.  As a student Carol won the Society of Radiographers national award for student of the year (2009).

Deborah Elliot, Head and Neck/Thyroid Specialist Nurse

Deborah is a head and neck/thyroid specialist nurse, supporting patients on both the wards and in the outpatient department.  Working alongside the consultants, she keeps in regular contact with her patients offering further support and advice at home.  Debbie is a consistent support to the nursing staff on the wards and is always available to offer them guidance.

Helen Mitchell, Nurse Clinician

Helen is nurse clinician within the medical oncology breast team. She also manages the breast clinical nurse specialist team.

Hilary Oldham lead clinical technician;

Hilary is the lead clinical technician; her role is assisting the pharmacists on the wards with clinical duties and leading the clinical technician team. She is heavily involved in providing clinical pharmacy services to patients on the wards which includes medication history taking ensuring patients have adequate supply of medication both as an in patients and when discharged from the hospital. She is involved in patient medication counseling.

Elaine Blowers, research nurse team leader

Elaine works as the research nurse team leader, she manages teams of research nurses and has a special interest in breast cancer. 

Elaine is said to be professional, fair, wonderful with patients, a wonderful of manger of staff and is a true reflection of what is a professional nurse.

Ann Buchan, Inpatient Chemotherapy Co-ordinator

Ann works as Inpatient Chemotherapy Coordinator in the patient treatment centre.

Ann has been nominated by members of the public/patients and colleagues for her hard work and has been selected by our judges following so many positive comments.

Nelia Collins, Domestic Assistance, Support Services

Nelia works as a Domestic Assistant on the YOU.

Nelia has been nominated by members of the public/patients for her efforts and has been selected by our judges for working in line with one of our Christie values 'Clean, tidy and safe environment'.

Not only does Nelia clean the YOU to a high standard she has been complimented on her disposition how personable she is with patients.

Linda Davies, Ward Administrator

Linda works as a Ward Administrator. She is managed by the Health Records Team but is based on ward 11. She meets and greets the patients and ensures that they have all the appointments for treatment and clinics. Linda also arranges transport for patients, handles a lot of telephone queries and undertakes all filing of medical notes.

Charlotte Finchett, Linac Support Worker

Charlotte works as a Linac support worker. Her role is to work on the Linac reception and she deals with most of the clerical work for the Linacs that she is working for.  She meets and greets the patients and ensures that they have all the appointments for treatment and clinics. She will also ensure that the patients have the correct information and support by liaising with the radiographers.

David Pickersgill, Ward 4 manager

David is always professional, well presented and considers no duty too small to ensure patients receive high quality care in a safe environment, and has continually supported his staff through education, encouragement and compassion.

Katy Burns, Senior Clinical Trials Administrator

Katy is based on the research annex and works closely with the lung and melanoma team. Katy is very hard working, enthusiastic, professional and a pleasure to work with. She maintains a high level of work for all our trials and has coped so well due to poor staffing levels on the team.  She has single handed maintained the data collection responsibilities of the Lung and Melanoma team running smoothly during extreme staff shortages. 

Anita Igoe, Health Care Assistant

Anita is based mainly on ward 4 and also works for a few evenings on the chemo suite. She is excellent with patients and has a helpful and cheery disposition. She also brings in sweets for her colleagues!

Eamonn Pyke, Health Care Assistant

Eamonn got two very touching nominations.  Although one is from a colleague and the other from a patient, they both say the same thing but from a different angle; that Eamonn is a good and caring person.  This is the essence of what makes staff at The Christie so special

Liz Alflatt, Senior Learning Administrator

Liz has been very involved in the move of the L&D department and the Maguire Unit and you can see from the comments made about her just how much her hard work and willing attitude were appreciated by her colleagues.  Everyone comments on what a fantastic job she's done and how organised she has been.