# Wythenshawe Hospital

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## TL;DR

A teaching hospital in south Manchester run by the Manchester University public hospitals trust. It is the trust's base for lung cancer care and lung surgery, and also treats breast cancer, while most chemotherapy and all radiotherapy for its patients is given by The Christie.

## Summary

Wythenshawe Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in south Manchester and part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, formed on 1 October 2017, which runs ten hospitals on seven sites. The hospital lists cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, heart and lung transplantation, respiratory medicine, burns and plastics, cancer and breast care among its specialist fields, and is home to the North West Lung Centre. The trust's Department of Thoracic Oncology is based mainly at Wythenshawe and covers most of the North West of England; the trust provides lung surgery for Greater Manchester and gives lung cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy and surgery for patients across Greater Manchester and Cheshire. Its breast unit, the Nightingale Centre, provides breast screening and surgery with reconstruction. The trust treats around 2,300 newly diagnosed cancer patients a year; The Christie gives most chemotherapy and all radiotherapy for its patients, sarcoma care goes to the Greater Manchester and Oswestry Sarcoma Service and brain tumours to Salford Royal, and children are treated at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

Newsweek and Statista ranked it 249th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; North West Lung Centre
- City: Manchester, GB
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/

## Sources

- Wythenshawe Hospital (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust): https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 249 (Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- Wythenshawe Hospital: About: https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/about/
- Wythenshawe Hospital: Cancer Services: https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/services/cancer-services
- MFT: Department of Thoracic Oncology: https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/services/thoracic-oncology

## Connected records

- institutions: [Manchester Royal Infirmary HPB Unit](https://onco.cc/institutions/manchester-royal-infirmary/), [The Christie NHS Foundation Trust](https://onco.cc/institutions/the-christie/)
- collections: [Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology](https://onco.cc/collections/newsweek-hospitals/)

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