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Cancer patient engagement event, MKUH December 2017- the results

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Recently the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance has been conducting cancer patient engagement events around the region. Here is the summary of our event held in December 2017…

Summary Report Patient Engagement Event, Milton Keynes University Hospital

The Thames Valley Cancer Alliance (TVCA) has funded a series of engagement events taking place across Thames Valley.  The purpose of these events has been two-fold: to discuss the latest cancer patient experience survey results to consider how improvements can be made to cancer services, and secondly to introduce individuals to the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance which was established in February 2017.

The National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) is a questionnaire distributed to patients who have received cancer treatments including surgical, medical and clinical treatments.  The survey aims to provide an insight into the care experienced by cancer patients across England and allows Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups to understand their individual performance and identify areas for local improvement. A full summary of results is publicly available online via http://www.ncpes.co.uk/index.php/reports/2016-reports/national-reports-1 where results for individual hospitals and clinical commissioning groups can also be accessed.

The event in MK: Michael Mawhinney opened the event with introductions to what the TVCA is and to provide an overview of the CPES and results for Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH).  Across 3 tables, 3 questions were asked of attendee’s.  A summary of the response to each question will be found in this report.  During discussions, Lead Cancer Nurse Sally Burnie provided an update for attendee’s about the current status of the new cancer centre build and plans for radiotherapy services.  Suzan St Maur then provided an overview of the role of the Milton Keynes Cancer Patient Partnership (MKCPP) and facilitated a discussion with the audience regarding some of the current challenges faced within the cancer care arena, including the roles of Macmillan, the TVCA and MKUH. [Read more…]

Latest news from the Milton Keynes Cancer Patient Partnertship

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Latest from our Tracker document

Keeping everyone informed on the projects going through the MKCPP at any one time. This is us updated as at February 10th, 2018.MKCPP sniffer dogClosing the gap between hospital and community care for patients living with Cancer and Beyond

Increasingly this is becoming a critical issue, especially given that cancer patients being discharged back into the community to continue living with and beyond cancer often have to jump over a large gap between secondary and primary care. We in the MKCPP have been flagging up this problem for nearly five years now. It is gratifying to see that many other localities, NHS and other groups as well as charities (including Macmillan), are arriving at the same conclusion.

In 2016, Angela Sheldrick, Breast ANP at MKUH was seconded by Macmillan and NHS England to manage Macmillan’s generic Living With & Beyond Cancer project in our locality to move more treatment, and especially post-treatment care, onto a more workable basis in closer partnership with primary care. This move was welcomed by us all in the MKCPP (… especially as we had been asking about it for four years.)

The solution: Cancer and Beyond – your way ahead

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New Head and Neck cancer support group launches in MK Feb 14th 2018

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“The Swallows” – the nationwide Head and Neck Cancer Support Charity – is opening its Milton Keynes branch on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 2018, at the Mercure Hotel at Abbey Hill, north-west MK.

New head and neck cancer support group for Milton Keynes
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Known as ‘The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Support Group’ because of difficulty a lot of people have with swallowing, this group is designed to help provide information for both patients and their carers. It was formed by like-minded cancer patients to help and support fellow sufferers and their carers. [Read more…]

Milton Keynes Cancer Patient Partnership AGM report 2017

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November 14th saw the MKCPP’s AGM, incorporated into our regular meeting and it was very interesting indeed, with guest speakers Frankie O’Neill from the late Deb James’s superb brainchild, “Cancer In The Workplace,” and Chris Lewis who came down from London to tell us about “Chris’s Cancer Community” and its worldwide activities. Minutes will be up here on the website soon.

Here is a summary of the MKCPP’s activities through 2017…

MKCPP AGM NOV 14th 2017: CHAIR’S REPORT

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