About Cancer and Homelessness
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Mahon returns to host this legacy episode discussing cancer and homelessness.
Lauren travels to Burnley to meet with Pastor Mick from The Church on the Street, and Thomas Linford, who after years of homelessness and a liver cancer diagnosis is currently residing in Palace House Care home in Burnley.
We hear from Advanced Nurse Practitioner Sheilagh Armstrong at The Wellspring, Stockport who work with those who are homeless or at the risk of losing their home. Manager of The Wellspring, Alex Knight and Project Worker, Paul Cornwall also join Lauren in the studio.
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| 0:00.0 | Some of the topics discussed in this podcast around homelessness lead to conversations around drug abuse and sexual abuse. |
| 0:06.0 | Details of organizations offering information and support with cancer or homelessness, addiction or abuse are available at BBC. |
| 0:13.2 | UK forward slash action line. |
| 0:16.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:21.0 | I've always been a minute since I've done this. |
| 0:23.0 | If you're homeless or a millionaire, your working class, your middle class, you're |
| 0:36.8 | a class, if you've not got your health, you've not got anything. |
| 0:39.5 | At the minute I'm honestly going to note, I'll just ignore it and just like try and plod on. |
| 0:44.0 | But I've done that in the past before and it's really not turned out well and it's ended up with me |
| 0:48.3 | being hospitalized. |
| 0:49.6 | I didn't have no health care, no doctors. |
| 0:52.8 | When I was feeling unwell, I had nowhere to go. |
| 0:55.8 | I can't get registered at a doctor's at the moment |
| 0:58.4 | because there's no spaces in the doctors. |
| 1:00.8 | If I don't have a smart phone, I have one of these other phones, normal mobiles. |
| 1:05.0 | Because of my situation almost as not having time really to engage or even want to look after my health. |
| 1:13.0 | I never thought of a go to the doctor or engaging with any health services at all. |
| 1:18.0 | Put the form in, say it will take a couple of days, go back a week later, still not done, and it keeps them going in that circle because |
| 1:24.4 | you're homeless. |
| 1:25.4 | Because everything's online and then doctors say they want to see you, but then they say |
| 1:29.1 | it's six weeks for you to get an appointment, and by the time of six weeks up you've had no medication for two months |
| 1:34.1 | and lest this was here you would have nothing. |
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