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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief nurse, following an intense recruitment proccess.
Victoria Peach has landed the role, which will start on 14 September, according to Birkenhead News. Currently, she is working as the interim director of integrated community health (west) at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in North Wales.
The new position is a big one and means Ms. Peach will be responsible for the quality of care and professional leadership of the trust's nursing and allied health professional staff, and infection prevention and control.
Ms. Peach has been a qualified nurse since 1997 and completed her MSc in practitioner development at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004. She also holds a specialist registered district nursing qualification.
After working as a district nurse in Stockport, she became a specialist tissue viability nurse in Manchester and then a nurse consultant in tissue viability in Leicestershire. From 2015 to 2018, she was head of professional practice and education at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.
She later moved to the Wirral to become associate director of nursing and therapies at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. She was subsequently appointed deputy chief nurse at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, where she worked from 2021 until joining Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in 2024.
Victoria Peach said on her appointment: "I am thrilled to be joining The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, an organisation that is renowned for outstanding, patient-centred cancer care, its compassionate and innovative culture, and the expertise and professionalism of its staff.
"I am particularly excited by the opportunity to work alongside nursing and AHP colleagues who make such a difference to people's lives."
The trust's current chief nurse, Julie Gray, retires at the end of August.
Chief Executive Joan Spencer said Victoria brings "a wealth of experience across community and acute services" and a commitment to "patient-focused, integrated care".
