World Cancer Day: Reflecting on the improved experience provided for patients living with cancer
Patient Mandy Clarke with Deborah Stone, sister at The Williams Day Unit. We are committed to supporting patients through the diagnosis and treatment of cancer with high quality care. On 4 February, we marked World Cancer Day by reflecting on the improved patient experience we have worked to provide throughout 2019.
Bernadette Roach, head of cancer, said:
Mandy, who was diagnosed with cancer in June 2018, said:
World Cancer Day was an opportunity to raise awareness I found the diagnosis quite of the disease nationally, and we scary, it was daunting, and you reflected on our continued work to enhance the services we provide listen but you don’t hear and don’t take it in at first. for our patients with cancer. We are proud of our achievements, delivering a very high standard of cancer care for the people of west Essex, Hertfordshire, and beyond.
We continue to focus on enhancing the experience of patients with cancer, working to have faster pathways for diagnosis in particular for lung, oesophago-gastric, colorectal and One of our patients, Mandy prostate cancers. Clarke, from Harlow, also took part in an information film to Teams across the hospital highlight the experience patients are dedicated to ensuring that with cancer may have, which is patients receive a diagnosis at available across our PAHT social the earliest opportunity and are then supported holistically with the physical and emotional challenges that can present during treatment for cancer. This includes the team at The Williams Day Unit, which patients with cancer attend to receive chemotherapy treatment.
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The team are great – it’s quite a happy place as patients who come in on a regular basis all get to know each other. It’s not a scary place to come. As soon as you walk through the doors, you feel at ease. The whole place is a warm, happy place to be if you’re being treated for cancer.
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