The Christie Charity
The vision for Christie Patient Centred Research (CPCR) is to be nationally and internationally recognised for excellence in patient-centred cancer research and evidence implementation.
Patient-centred research focuses on outcomes related to patient’s wellbeing, quality of life and experience, rather than cancer or disease related outcomes. Our goal is to identify areas where a person’s experience can be improved and explore effective evidence-based ways to achieve this.
Our place in The Christie research strategy
The Christie strategy 2023 to 2028 aims to ensure The Christie is a leader in cancer care, offers patients access to local and specialist care and delivers the best outcomes and best experience to patients, relatives, carers and staff.
The Christie research strategy sets a vision of learning from every patient, enabling every patient to participate in research and applying this knowledge to improve life-enhancing and life-saving treatment for our patients now and in the future. Patient-centred research is a key theme within NHS research policy frameworks and is integral to The Christie achieving its aims.
Our aims
- Actively involve and engage with all patients at all stages of our research projects to ensure our research is reflective of patient needs
- Undertaking and facilitating high quality research that is clinically relevant and patient and carer centred
- Supporting clinical teams to embed patient centred research within their trials
- Facilitating the implementation of research findings into practice
- Promoting the dissemination of research and practice innovations
- Building research capacity and capability for Christie staff and supporting them to achieve their goals
Our development framework
We have set out a 5-year plan (2024 to 2028) of research development that mirrors The Christie strategy and The Christie research strategy, ensuring that the work of CPCR is in line with the Trust’s future direction and that outputs are ‘close to practice’.
To deliver the vision of CPCR, we recognise that commitment and action are required at different levels – from the individual, the organisation, wider NHS and academic partners – whilst ensuring that all that we do remains patient centred. This will be guided by the framework: The Christie patients, The Christie people, The Christie place, and The Christie partners. This framework will provide guidance to support the continual development of CPCR.