Christie Hospital

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is located in Withington, Manchester, and is one of the largest cancer treatment centres in Europe. The Christie became a NHS Foundation Trust in April 2007 and is also an international leader in cancer research and development, and home to the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research. The hospital had its beginnings in Sir Joseph Whitworth, a wealthy Mancunian inventor who left money in his will in 1887 to be spent at the discretion of three legatees. Whitworth wished for this money to spend on good causes in Manchester. Consequently some of that money was used to buy land off Oxford Road, adjacent to Owens College and intended to allow the movement of the central Manchester hospitals out of the crowded...