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Patients’ Association

If you have cancer, and live in the wrong area, who cares?

December 4, 2009

NOBODY CARES IF YOU LIVE IN THE WRONG AREA AND HAVE CANCER
Exactly a year ago the Department of Health Published the National Cancer Reform Strategy, calling for reform to address the “unacceptable” variation in cancer survival rates across the country.
If you live in Herefordshire – heaven help you;  according to the Patients’ Association (PA) you [...]

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Does you doctor listen to you, or spend more time looking at a screen?

October 31, 2009

Typical Surgery – full of computers  Wikipedia

DOES YOUR DOCTOR LOOK YOU IN THE EYE?
In a recent survey, Pulse Magazine (the doctors’ in-house mag.) found nearly half of GPs claim to be too busy to make eye-contact with their patients during consultations.
97 per cent complained that consultations had become more complicated and intense over the last [...]

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Macmillan gets GPs together to talk QOFs and other things

October 14, 2009

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27.9.09
MACMILLAN CANCER VOICES EVENT
According to one of the Moderators at the event:

The average GP’s practice will have around 50 cancer survivors.

Around 60% of those will have symptoms or side effects ten years after initial diagnosis

Cancer patients receive around 10% of QOFs that other diseases receive – yet Mike Richards says nothing can [...]

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