by Kate Robinson | Apr 16, 2024 | Patient Stories, South Wiltshire
…it’s worth coming here. It’s like we’re having a coffee but with an extra side treatment of chemo! “I can’t praise it highly enough. It’s just an amazing service and I’m so grateful for it,” says Sally, 56, when asked about...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 16, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Suffolk
…it’s really convenient to just park on the same site as Tesco. It works really well. Liz, who is retired and lives just outside Newmarket, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2017. She recalls: “I’d had symptoms for a while, mainly bloating in my stomach....
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Apart from saving on travel costs, it is far more serene and much calmer than on the wards Almost three years ago, Janet went to her GP complaining of bleeding mouth ulcers. She was referred for a scan which revealed the worst possible news that it was terminal lung...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It means I can spend more time with my children Thirty-six-year-old Anna went to the doctor in her native Ukraine during the summer of 2021 after experiencing a hardness in one of her breasts. She was given a course of antibiotics, but when she returned to her GP with...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 12, 2024 | MCCU Staff Stories
I am there to make the lives of the patients and staff easier When Bryan Baird was a young man undergoing chemotherapy at Canterbury Hospital in Kent, he couldn’t have imagined he would be back there again 30 years later working as a driver for Hope for Tomorrow’s...
