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Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at a number of doctors’ surgeries in Wigan are being invited for a lung health check at an NHS mobile clinic based behind B&M at Robin Retail Park. The quick, free checks can help find lung cancer at an early stage – before you might have any symptoms - when it is much more treatable and help save lives. If successful, the NHS plans to roll out the test to a further one million people across 2024 and 2025. Most visitors to the lung health checks will [...]

A project aiming to understand the impact and benefits of delivering cancer care to children in their homes across the North West has been launched this month – with help from Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. The North West Children’s Cancer Operational Delivery Network has received funding from regional cancer alliances to deliver an 18-month proof of concept project across the region, working in partnership with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool.  The project – which launched its six-month planning phase this month – aims to understand the impact and benefits of [...]

A PROJECT that has helped to reduce waiting times for patients with suspected cancer has been recognised at a prestigious national awards ceremony. Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance was Highly Commended for Driving Efficiency through Technology at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards for its work on Single Queue Diagnostics in Cancer. The HSJ Awards celebrate the achievements of dedicated teams and individuals from the UK’s health and social care sector The Single Queue Diagnostics Pathway is a new service for people that need specialist tests to help find out what's going on with their health. For [...]

When Dr. Farida Anderson volunteered as an NHS Cancer Voices patient representative with Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, she thought it would be a chance to help other patients like her. The 61-year-old, from Prestwich, has been able to share her experience of what it is like to go through breast cancer with healthcare professionals so that they can make improvements to services. Farida is the face of a new campaign to encourage more people affected by cancer to volunteer as patient or carer representatives But she also found signing up as a patient representative has [...]

More than 700 people in Greater Manchester - have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier thanks to an innovative NHS initiative, which uses mobile scanning trucks to visit local communities. The NHS Targeted Lung Health Check programme is the biggest initiative in NHS history aimed at improving early lung cancer diagnosis, and is specifically targeted at areas of the country with the highest rates of lung cancer. Dr Haval Balata, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Wythenshawe Hospital and Responsible Clinician for the Greater Manchester Targeted Lung Health Check Programme stands in front of the Targeted Lung Health Check [...]

Hospitals in Greater Manchester are to begin using an new AI (artificial intelligence) technology which will help doctors to detect diseases, including lung cancer, quicker.  The new technology will be rolled out at seven NHS Trusts across the region over the next few months as part of a partnership between Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, Greater Manchester Imaging Network and global health tech firm Annalise.ai.  PHOTO SHOWS: Annalise AI Chest X-ray solution detecting potential lung cancer findings. The technology has now gone live at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Manchester NHS Foundation Trust [...]