The centre brings together expert staff, high-quality care and excellence in research. It works collaboratively across the system, in the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter and beyond, nationally and internationally, to advance excellence in both research and care, to advice cancer research across C&M, and to translate research from ‘bench to bedside. The hospital has a stepped plan with external landscaped terraces at each level. Daylight penetrates deep into the radiotherapy waiting area at semi-basement level beside a winter-garden, over which the building cantilevers. The chemotherapy department is at the penultimate level of the building, below the pharmacy and drugs trials unit.