Specialist areas
Medical Director
Dr Nigel Marchbank
Dr Marchbank is a Consultant Radiologist in Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, based at Brighton.
He was appointed Medical Director of the SCN in April 2003 and works 4 sessions a week for the SCN.
In April 2007, Dr Marchbank was elected Chair of the National Cancer Medical Director's Forum.
His reponsibilities include -
- providing clinical leadership to the Tumour Groups and their Chairs
- providing clinical leadership in development of cancer services in line with national and local priorities
- leading development of clinical links outside the Network
- advising the Board on clinical governance issues responsibility for and providing leadership to the Network Clinical Leads for Head & Neck, Thyroid, Bladder, Prostate, Renal and Skin cancers, the SCN Public Health Director, SCN Bowel Screening Clinical Director and the Sussex Cancer Research Network Lead Clinician
- Vice Chair of the Network Executive Board.
