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Meet Josie, an A-Level Student who has volunteered at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool since it opened back in June. Josie welcomes people into the hospital, meeting and greeting patients and delivering items dropped off by loved ones to our inpatients.

Details of our Annual Members Meeting, reporting on our performance in 2019/20.

Our expert Lung Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner Team are finalists in the ‘Cancer Nursing’ category of the Nursing Times Awards 2020, which will take place virtually on Wednesday 18 November 2020. The awards final is particularly timely as November marks Lung Cancer Awareness Month and the North West has some of the highest rates of lung cancer in the country.

Today we'd like to introduce, or re-introduce, you to Phil. Some of you may remember Phil from earlier this year when he shared his family's story and we found out what the opening of our brand new Liverpool hospital would mean to him. Well, now Phil is volunteering in that very same hospital, helping our patients as they arrive.

125 years ago on 8th November 1895 – x-radiation (or x-rays) were discovered by the German mechanical engineer and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. Since 2012, radiographers across the globe have honoured Roentgen’s discovery by celebrating World Radiography Day on the 8th November every year. Here at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre we have around 170 radiographers working across our specialist cancer hospitals.

After a short break, we're back with more volunteers! Our volunteers play a vital role here at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and are an extension of our expert team of staff, enhancing the experience of our patients and their families. Lauryn is a third-year medicinal chemistry student at the University of Liverpool and assists patients navigate around the hospital,

Patients attending the Marina Dalglish Unit at Aintree University Hospital need to be aware of changes affecting the main entrance and drop-off area from Monday 2nd November.

Two radiographers, who treat cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, have shaved their heads in support of a colleague who herself is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukaemia.