Joan Spencer

Joan Spencer is Chief Executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer trust serving Cheshire and Merseyside from hospitals in Wirral, Liverpool and Aintree plus satellite clinics, and home to the UK's only low-energy proton therapy unit for eye tumours. The trust announced in November 2024 that she would take over from Liz Bishop, who retired after 42 years in the NHS, on 31 March 2025; the trust's news pages later record her permanent appointment as Chief Executive in April 2026 following a national recruitment process. A cancer nurse by training, she joined Clatterbridge in 2014 as General Manager of Chemotherapy, developed its networked care model and launched Clatterbridge in the Community, the UK's first chemotherapy-at-home service, before serving as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive from April 2019.