by Kate Robinson | May 9, 2025 | Patient Stories, West Suffolk
I had no idea it was going to be the lifeline that it has been for me. After serving 25-years in the Coldstream Guards including several active tours in Northern Ireland and Sarajevo there’s not much that fazes Stan Jackson. But finding out overnight that he had Stage...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 24, 2025 | Charity News
We’ve been invited! Pioneering national mobile cancer care charity, Hope for Tomorrow, has been invited to attend a community reception, hosted by HM The King and HM The Queen, on the 30 April at Buckingham Palace. The exclusive invitation follows Hope for...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 9, 2025 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
It’s like walking into a little oasis that takes all the sting out of everything bad. That’s how Sally Shillington describes her visits to the mobile cancer care unit in Louth in Lincolnshire. Sally likes to refer to the unit as ‘the bus’ and jokes that she feels...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 9, 2025 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
The environment isn’t fraught with the hustle and bustle of an oncology department “I was diagnosed with breast cancer about 15 years ago after having a mammogram,” begins Jocelyn, who is retired. “I had radiotherapy at Colchester General before getting the ‘all...
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....
by Kate Robinson | Apr 7, 2025 | MCCU Staff Stories
…of all the transport jobs I have had, this is the one I thoroughly enjoy. It is so rewarding. It’s the most satisfying job I have ever had. When Ian John took early retirement from his job as a driver, he was inundated with recruitment emails looking for...
