Professor Mark Baker joins The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Posted 15th November 2016
Professor Mark Baker has joined the board of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust as a non-executive director.
Prof Baker started his three year term of office on 1st November.
Prof Baker is the Director of the Centre for Guidelines at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and is responsible for designing and operating methods and systems to produce clinical guidelines for the NHS.
In 2008, together with Roger Cannon, he produced the Baker Cannon Report into the provision of cancer services in Merseyside and Cheshire.
Its recommendations included the building of a new cancer hospital in Liverpool city centre, an expansion of radiotherapy services and establishing an academic unit of highly research-active doctors.
Much of that work is now well under way. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre expanded its services when it opened the specialist radiotherapy centre, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Aintree, in 2011 and the academic unit was established in 2010.
He joins the Trust as they are about to embark on completing the final element of the recommendations.
Work has started on a new specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool, next to the site of the Royal Liverpool University Teaching Hospital, which is due to open in 2019.
He said he was looking forward to seeing through the job he started in 2008.
Prof Baker added: “I was very pleased to be invited to join the board. I am impressed with the Trust’s commitment to doing the right thing, their persistence and the imaginative way in which the scheme has been funded.
“All those factors made the organisation very attractive to join.”
Wendy Williams, Chair of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are delighted that Professor Baker has joined the Trust Board as his extensive knowledge and skills will contribute towards us fully realising our ambitious plans to truly Transform Cancer Care.”
