Current Opportunities

The session will help you by: 

• Increasing your knowledge of key messages around reducing your risk of cancer, the national cancer screening programmes, and spotting cancer early 
• Building your confidence to talk to the public about cancer 
• Helping you to encourage people to make healthy changes, access local services and visit their GP promptly with any concerns 
• Enhance your knowledge of prevention and early diagnosis messages

If you’re able to promote health and wellbeing in your community, the Talk Cancer training can give you the confidence and knowledge you need to get the best from your conversations.

As mentioned above, we will go through information on how people can reduce their risk of cancer through things like not smoking and keeping a healthy weight, the importance of visiting your GP promptly with any concerns and the national screening programmes available.

We also set the scene and talk about what cancer is and the treatments people may have. This is the information we present to all audiences based on the latest evidence.

 If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can register for a place using the link here.

The OG pathway board is a multi-disciplinary team of varied clinical and non-clinical members that focusses on the development and improvement of cancer services for OG cancers.

This role helps to represent the collective views of patients and carers at the pathway board by identifying appropriate areas for contribution. They do this by attending the small community meetings and working with other representatives to understand what topics/matters can be brought forward, and from their attendance at any external support groups/meetings.

For more information on the Pathway Board and experience and skills required, please read our role profile.

If you are interested in participating in this opportunity or would like more information please contact us through the ‘Enquire About Opportunity’ tab below or email the Cancer Voices email address gmcancer.voices@nhs.net.

Our collaboration with the Personalised Care team and Made by Mortals will create a bespoke audio story (15-20mins in length) featuring original music and sound design, and the voices of our Cancer Voices Community. We will also create a short video trailer, to promote the audio story. Through the audio story, we will explore what personalised care means, the impact it can have and why it is important. ‘Personal’ will leave the audience feeling uplifted, positive, and aware of the impact the Personalised Care Pathway can have on real people’s lives.

We’ll be holding 6 in person workshops throughout June and July and are looking for between 6 and 10 Reps to attend each session. If you would like to be a part of this fantastic project please complete the survey and let us know your session preferences by Friday 24th May using the link here.

Ethnic minority groups are underrepresented in clinical trials, so we want to understand:

• Were you offered a clinical trial?
• If you were, did you take it up and what led you to your decision?
• What could we do to encourage people to take up clinical trials?
• What are some reservations people might have towards clinical trials?
• What content would you like to see to help guide your decision?

Your insight will help us to create new information resources that are more relevant and accessible. More information can be found on this poster.

If you are interested in having an information conversation about your experience, we would love to hear from you. Please contact: innovate@macmillan.org.uk.

All conversations are private and confidential, 1 hour long, done at a time convenient to you over the phone or via virtual meeting. Participants will receive a £35 voucher.

If you have experience, as a patient or a carer, with any of the following cancer types, we’d love to hear from you:

• breast
• colorectal
• head and neck
• lung
• oesophago-gastric
• skin
• urology (kidney, bladder and prostate).

You may also have experience of going to A&E with an emergency related to your cancer, treatment or received a new diagnosis of any cancer.

A small community is a group of Patient and Carer Representatives who have experience of a specific cancer/tumour type, who come together every few months to influence the work of the pathway board for that cancer type.

We are looking to expand our small communities to ensure we hear from a diverse range of patient and carer viewpoints, and are particularly interested in those who have been diagnosed or affected by cancer recently.

For more information on small communities, and experience/skills required, please read our role profile.

Sharing your experience about cancer can be really helpful for others. It helps raise awareness of different types of cancer amongst members of the general public as well as highlighting cancer symptoms people can look out for in a more personal and memorable way than an information leaflet. It also helps demystify cancer, encourage conversations around cancer, lets people know about treatment involved and helps us to demonstrate that a variety of different people are affected by cancer. We are also interested in hearing from people caring for those with cancer. You can see examples of other patient stories on our news page.

To enquire about this opportunity please send us your name, age, cancer type, month and year of diagnosis, the area of Greater Manchester you live in, your phone number, and other brief information which you feel might be relevant or newsworthy.
***Please be aware we might not be able to reply to you immediately but will endeavour to send a reply within a fortnight.