@LancsHospRT and @WeAreLSCFT have made an amazing patient information video about radiotherapy! Giving you an insight into your radiotherapy journey from parking to planning to treatment and reviews
highly recommend giving it a watch!
https://t.co/pPViTZgegL
Cancer patients at #UHMBT have scored the care and treatment they received 9 out of 10 in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey. See the full results and hear from our Lead Cancer Nurse on this link: https://t.co/nu0fqVUoDP #cancer
Join us for the NW Learning Disability Nurses Network Annual Event!
🗓️ Date: July 3, 2024
A day of learning, networking, and celebrating our profession. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to grow and learn together.
Register at: https://t.co/rgKgS17nq3
#NHSandCareLDNurses
Frontline expertise is invaluable in any safety critical system such as nursing. Embrace the complexity of work as done and make sure you promote the skills, knowledge & expertise it requires! 🙏 for resharing your excellent talk @alisonleary1#nursing
Patients living with and beyond cancer and their friends, family and carers are welcome to come along to our free Cancer Health and Wellbeing event at Stonecross Manor #Kendal on Friday 19 April from 10am to 3pm: https://t.co/HZG7lDjVrD @UHMBTCancerCNSs@macmillancancer#cancer
If you’ve ever served in the UK Armed Forces, are struggling with your mental health and live in England, Op COURAGE is here to help. Op COURAGE is a dedicated NHS mental health service developed by veterans, for veterans. Visit https://t.co/L5hhxWdiCt
Patients living with and beyond cancer and their friends, family and carers are welcome to come along to our free Cancer Health and Wellbeing event at Stonecross Manor #Kendal on Friday 19 April from 10am to 3pm: https://t.co/ETpiuU10dJ @UHMBTCancerCNSs@Macmillancancer#cancer
Looking forward to a day of celebration @enherts organised by our rockstar lead cancer nurse (a CNS by background) @alimully thank you for your #leadership for the CNS teams & my teams: Macmillan personalised care team & Macmillan information centre team 🙏 #NationalCancerCNSDay
Happy #NationalCancerCNSDay to all the fabulous CNSs @UHMBT
Our work is often difficult for managers to quantify. I hope they remember about those jigsaw pieces that are thrown at patients that CNSs help to arrange and make sense of from diagnosis to end of life
@UistLass
Wellbeing therapy treatment @YoloWellbeing piloted by @UHMBT Royal Lancaster Infirmary reduces stress levels by almost a quarter @UCLan researchers find.
@april_melia@LHealthmatters
@UCLanResearch
Read more 👇
https://t.co/VLWyvPzoDB
Patient's description being given their diagnosis
"It's like having the jigsaw pieces thrown at you but not being shown the picture you're to make"
This = value of CNSs. We are there to make sense of it all & help create the picture ❤️ @UistLass@UHMBTCancerCNSs@aaroncumminsNHS
Our gynaecology team have produced this infographic to raise awareness of the signs of ovarian cancer for #ovariancancerawareness month #earlydiagnosis saves lives
Sian Parker CNS shares how much she’s learnt about both the QI methodology but also how her role improves patient experience #CNSValue thanks to her work with CIC #cancercollab plus some interesting data on an I&S centre use @macmillancancer
Check the wonderful Prehabilitation videos co-produced with lived experience partners & @bmsnews@macmillancancer on:
What is prehabilitation? Physical activity
Eating well
Mental wellbeing
Alcohol moderation
Stopping smoking @Junedavis44
Cancer patients in South Cumbria travelling to their nearest radiotherapy centre in Preston will now be charged £25 for staying at the hospital overnight.
Charging vulnerable people for living too far away from treatment is appalling
We need a radiotherapy centre in Kendal now!