Tessa Green, Chairman of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, has been awarded a CBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2008.
She was awarded the prestigious accolade for services to healthcare for her work over the past 14 years, the last 10 at The Royal Marsden.
She said: “I am delighted to receive this prestigious honour. This award is not so much a recognition of the work that I have done, but the work of a great team here at The Royal Marsden whom I would like to thank for their support over the years.”
Cally Palmer CBE, Chief Executive of The Royal Marsden, said: “We are delighted that Tessa’s outstanding contribution has been recognised with this great honour.
“We are grateful for her ceaseless energy and absolute determination to make a difference for The Royal Marsden, its staff and its patients, and we congratulate her as a colleague and friend.”
Tessa was Chairman in 2004 when The Royal Marsden was granted Foundation Trust status, one of the first in the country, and has a special interest in the work of the Clinical Governance Committee which she chairs
Tessa was the driving force behind The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign’s Make our Day appeal in 2005 which raised more than £34 million to help The Royal Marsden provide money towards key areas of need and enable the hospital to treat more patients, more quickly and more effectively.
The facilities made possible by the Campaign include:
- Europe’s largest Drug Development Unit, ranked as ‘Doubly Outstanding’ by Cancer Research UK
- a new Medical Day Unit at our site in Sutton and a Critical Care Unit, the only one of its kind in the UK
- a pioneering PET/CT scanner which helps us to diagnose cancer more quickly and accurately than ever before and helps us to avoid unnecessary surgery
- new state-of-the-art operating theatres on both sites
- a Rapid Diagnostic and Assessment Centre which enables swift and accurate diagnosis for suspected breast, prostate, lymphatic and skin cancers.
Tessa Green became Chairman of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in November 1998, and was appointed Chairman of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in April 2004. Before this she was a Non-Executive Director of The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust in Reading and Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee at The Royal Marsden.