by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | Patient Stories, South Wiltshire
Sometimes you just want to be wrapped up in a great big comfort blanket and that’s what the mobile unit does for me. The former prison governor was 58 when he was told he had terminal lung cancer in the summer of 2020 after weeks of putting his symptoms down to Covid....
by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
There is no hanging around; you just rock up, get your stuff done, and then you’re off. Diana, 65, is from Colchester and was diagnosed with lung cancer two and a half years ago, during COVID. She explains: “I’d had a cough for about a year and it wouldn’t shift. At...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | Kent, Patient Stories
It’s no different to the hospital really, just smaller. When Teresa Goodbun was invited to attend a local mobile unit for her ongoing cancer treatment she was delighted. Having undergone a mastectomy at the William Harvey Hospital, and chemotherapy at the Kent...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
You turn up and are seen almost immediately. It’s so relaxed and there’s always a cup of tea on offer. Juggling school drop off and pick up for two young children in between chemotherapy appointments at hospital was quite a logistical challenge for the Neal family...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 7, 2025 | MCCU Staff Stories
I was, and still am, blown away by the service. I just can’t even begin to describe how good it is. When Steven Crabtree applied to a job advert for a cancer care driver on the mobile unit for Leeds and West Yorkshire, he admits he didn’t really know what to expect....
