Current Opportunities

The details of the workshops are:

Wednesday 1st May, 1.30-3.30pm at Virgin Money (Manchester city centre)
Friday 3rd May, 10am-12pm on MS Teams

If you are interested, please could you let us know if you would like to attend, and which workshop is your preference, by Monday 29th April, we can then confirm whether you have been allocated a place on your preferred workshop

There will be a short pre-meet for 15 minutes as an interview panel prior to the interviews starting.

Please be aware that as the interviews are taking place via MS Teams your email address will be included within the invite to the candidates.

In the interview itself, there will be a short presentation by the candidate and then set questions that have to all be asked to each candidate, as a panel member you will make brief notes/points from the candidate’s answers.

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

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.

The head and neck 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 head and neck 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.

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.