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A mobile health clinic will be arriving in Farnworth and Kearsley to offer past and current smokers aged 55–74 a free Lung Health Check from Saturday 22 June. It will operate 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) from 8am to 8pm to ensure that appointments are accessible to everyone who’s invited. Patients will be informed of the location in an invitation letter or text message. Invitation letters and text messages will be sent out to smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in in the Farnworth and Kearsley Primary Care [...]

An Irlam lady is urging people in Salford to take up their free NHS lung health checks after her check-up saved her life. The NHS in Salford is offering free Lung Health Checks to past and current smokers aged 55 to 74 who are registered with a GP in the Eccles and Irlam areas. Eligible people will be contacted by letter and invited for an appointment. Lorraine didn't have any symptoms of lung cancer. She credits her Lung Health Check with saving her life. Lorraine Bradley, 66, from Irlam, Salford, went for her first [...]

A mobile health clinic will be arriving in Heywood to offer past and current smokers aged 55–74 a free Lung Health Check. From 2 April a clinic will be housed in a mobile unit at Heywood Sports Village, West Starkey Street, Heywood, offering the checks. It will operate 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) from 8am to 8pm to ensure that appointments are accessible to everyone who’s invited. GP letters will be sent out to smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in in the Heywood area. Patients who are invited [...]

The finalists have been announced for the 2024 Greater Manchester Cancer Awards organised by Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. The awards honour outstanding work to improve lives and treatment for people affected by cancer in Greater Manchester.   70 entries were received for this year’s Greater Manchester Cancer Awards across six categories. Entries came from teams in the NHS, research, voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE), and public health /local authority sectors. This recognises the collaborative approach teams take in Greater Manchester to work across organisational boundaries to make things better for patients. Judges were made up [...]

A FORMER headteacher from Greater Manchester who is living with ovarian cancer wants more women to know the signs and symptoms of the cancer. Gill Broom, 62, originally from Bramhall, Stockport, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in November 2020. Gill, who now lives in Clitheroe, is a volunteer with the Dianne Oxberry Trust - a charity focused on raising awareness of ovarian cancer symptoms to people across the North West. Dianne, who was from Greater Manchester and one of the BBC’s longest-serving presenters, sadly died from ovarian cancer on 10 January 2019. Gill found [...]

A mobile health clinic will be arriving in central Wigan to offer past and current smokers aged 55–74 a free Lung Health Check later this month (March). A scanner and clinic will be housed in a mobile unit at Robin Park Leisure Centre and Arena, Loire Drive, Newtown, Wigan, WN5. It will operate 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) from 8am to 8pm to ensure that appointments are accessible to everyone who’s invited. GP letters will be sent out to smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors surgeries in in the [...]

Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance is delighted to announce that our Workforce and Education Team has been shortlisted for the Digital Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2024 HSJ Digital Awards. The awards recognise innovative digital projects that transform care delivery, enhance efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. 343 entries have been received for this year’s Digital Awards, with 165 projects and individuals meriting inclusion on the final shortlist. The high volume - and exceptional quality – of applications once again mirrors the impressive levels of innovation and care continually being developed across the UK’s healthcare system. [...]

National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Day 2024 today (Friday 15 March 2024). To mark the day we spoke with Dawn Turner who is a Rapid Diagnostic Centre Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist at Tameside Macmillan Unit, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust.  Dawn first started her CNS career journey as an associate CNS in 2019 and then entered her current role in 2021. Dawn shared with us her journey to this current role, what inspired her into a career in cancer and what the CNS role means to her. Talk us through your career journey [...]

An exciting agenda has been announced for this year’s Greater Manchester Cancer Conference which takes place on 14 and 15 May 2024 at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate. Speakers will include Dame Cally Palmer, National Cancer Director for NHS England, Dr Manisha Kumar, Chief Medical Officer for NHS Greater Manchester, and Rob Bellingham Director of Primary Care and Strategic Commissioning, NHS Greater Manchester. Day one will also include a keynote session featuring Nicola Nuttall, mother of Laura Nuttall who was diagnosed with Stage 4 Glioblastoma in 2018. The audience will hear the story of Laura’s infamous ‘bucket [...]

Do you know a voluntary, community or social enterprise organisation (VCSE) that would like to help play a part in increasing early cancer diagnosis rates in underserved communities in Greater Manchester? The 10GM Cancer and Inequalities fund is offering grants of up to £5,000 for Greater Manchester-based VCSE organisations to deliver projects that will raise awareness of the early signs and symptoms of cancer and identify and understand the barriers people face when receiving a cancer diagnosis. Early diagnosis is often the key to successfully treating cancer. It can make treatment more simple and less invasive [...]