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GatewayC gets the green light GatewayC, an online education platform for primary care, hosted at The Christie, The project, originally developed as part of the Greater Manchester Cancer Vanguard Programme, already offers a number of interactive online cancer courses focussing on symptom recognition, improving quality of referrals, confidence in when and when not to refer patients and improving the patient experience. has been given the green light to roll out across the north of England thanks to funding from Health Education England (North).

It has already been piloted successfully across Greater Manchester and parts of London, with 94% of GPs stating it helped with future referrals and 85% saying they felt more confident in knowing when to refer a patient on a suspected cancer referral. With HEE funding, a new programme team has been set up, hosted by The Christie’s School of Oncology. In the next 12 months, the team will continue to develop an additional 16 cancer courses and roll out GatewayC to primary care professionals across the north of England. Find out more at www.gatewayc.org.uk or by emailing gatewayc@christie.nhs.uk

The GatewayC team

Improving car parking for staff In April 2019 we will begin the construction of a new six tier car park on Cotton Lane that will see more than 400 spaces created for staff. The new car park will take one year to build and as a result there will be a loss of 300 spaces during construction. If you have any other ideas on how to help reduce the impact on staff during the development of the new car park please contact the capital and estates team on extension 2337 .

We realise that staff parking has long been a challenge and while we are hopeful the new car park will go a long way to resolving some of the issues at present, we are also looking at ways to reduce the impact on staff once work begins. Parking permits will be reviewed and we will be letting you know the impact of this in January, before parking is affected in March 2019. We have two park and ride facilities ready (at Withington Hospital and Burnage Rugby Club) once construction begins and are looking at one or two other potential sites. We are also exploring the possibility of using driveways belonging to local residents.

An artist’s impression of the new car park

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