Top Tweets for #TerminalLungCancer

about 1 year ago · Plympton

I have just received the #NHS message warning me I might not be eligible to receive this year's #Covidbooster. Not only do I have my own chronic health conditions, I am the only carer for my Partner who has #TerminalLungcancer, #copd & has just had a mini #stroke. I am fuming!

Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6

about 1 year ago · Plympton

As someone whose Partner has #TerminalLungCancer and will need the support of Palliative Care, reports like this are heartbreaking. We all want our loved ones to have the best of care when their time comes don't we? How are our loved ones worth so little to this Government? #Cuts

Dr Rachel Clarke

@doctor_oxford

about 1 year ago

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week. I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding. This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need. In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric. @CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's. Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are). These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government. So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices. I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting. We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch? Thank you @channel4news for covering this story. #palliativecare #hospicecare #NHS

doctor_oxford's tweet photo. This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.

I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.

This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.

In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.

@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.

Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).

These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.

So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.

So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.

We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?

Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.

#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS

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Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6

about 1 year ago · Plympton

Oh dear! There was nothing in Starmers speech which gave me any hope. As a #carer for someone who has #TerminalLungCancer having to make ends meet on Sickness & #DisabilityBenefits, there was NOTHING but the usual vilification. So many let down by the same old #welfare bashing

Oliver Ryan MP @OliverRyanUK

about 1 year ago

Best speech I've ever heard from Keir - THAT'S who he is, THAT'S what he believes, THAT’S the Britain we're building. Standing up to the grifters & snake oil salesmen, calling out the racists. Labour vs Reform. Progressives vs Populists. Patriotic Vision vs Playground Politics.

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Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6

about 3 years ago

Yep! I go through the fright of this every time I have to go out...for myself with #MECFS to try to avoid relapse and for my partner who has #TerminalLungCancer People look at me like I'm a freak but I've learned to just not care about the stares #StillMaskingUp

Dan 🦠➡️🧠🔥 @Dan_Wyke

about 3 years ago

I had a hospital appointment yesterday and was surprised to see no-one wearing a mask, even though there's been a surge in infections and hospital admissions. Seems like we've completely stopped thinking about the long-term effects of infection + people who are immunocompromised.

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Barbara Jacoby

@letlifehappen

about 10 years ago

Terminal cancer patients could... https://t.co/PY3HMhmikC #bowelcancer #cancer #immunotherapy #ipilimumab #Nivolumab #terminallungcancer

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