Each and every person who works at The Christie performs a valuable role which directly links to patient care. Whether it is a nurse delivering chemotherapy treatments, a member of the administration team sending out an appointment letter, a surgeon performing a robotic procedure, the domestic teams ensuring our wards are spotlessly clean, or an IT engineer keeping our computer systems running, there is a huge variety of roles that come together to make The Christie special.
All our staff go to tremendous lengths to help each and every one of our patients and together: We are The Christie.
When Lucy Davies, one of our radiographers, was a teenager, she thought her future would be about performances and pointe shoes rather than radiotherapy and PhDs.
Lucy, who trained as a professional ballet dancer, has worked as a radiographer at The Christie for over 12 years. She’s now doing research that aims to minimise facial deformation in children who have had radiotherapy, including proton beam therapy, for head and neck cancer.
“I started dancing when I was 3 and then after my GCSEs I successfully auditioned for and trained at the Central School of Ballet in London,” she says. “I danced professionally for a while after graduating, but after sustaining an injury, I decided to retrain.
