Claire Goldrick, Pathway Manager for Breast, Neuro-oncology and Research, Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance:

Claire has been working at Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance for over six years as a pathway manager, facilitating multiple pathway boards to deliver system wide improvements to cancer pathways and patient care, including Breast, Head and Neck, Genomics, Neuro-oncology and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary cancer. The pathway boards offer an clinically led, collaborative approach to service improvement and bring together stakeholders from across Greater Manchester to create an engaged, multidisciplinary board which is representative of the whole patient pathway.

Prior to working at the alliance, Claire worked at Cancer Research UK as their Northwest Clinical Research Associate, covering a range of early phase clinical trials. Claire has also held roles at The Christie Clinical Trials Unit and Macmillan building a wealth of experience in clinical cancer research and service improvement.

Claire has also qualified as a coach and mentor with the Chartered Management Institute and is currently part of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson NHS Senior Leadership Programme.