Gamechangers: Mobile Cancer Care
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tina Seymour, chief executive of Hope For Tomorrow, joins Debs, Lauren and Steve to talk about how the charity provides mobile cancer care units to NHS Trusts and the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The #YouMeBigC team are also joined by Madelaine McLaughlin who uses the service and Pat Dyminski, who is a lead clinical nurse and MSCC Coordinator at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss the impact mobile units can make to rural communities.
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| 0:10.0 | The reason we don't call them buses here personally is we worry that patients may be scared |
| 0:11.0 | about the term bus or van or minivan. |
| 0:12.0 | Thinking that they're not going to get a medical facility, they might think you're being |
| 0:19.2 | shoved into the back of a Del Boys van and you know it's about reassuring patients |
| 0:22.3 | that you know these are really expensive units. |
| 0:25.8 | We were really hard to make them as comfortable as possible. |
| 0:31.0 | They've got air condition, they've got heating, they've got air filtration systems, the |
| 0:34.1 | fresh air being pumped in all the time. |
| 0:37.6 | They've got everything that you could possibly want really for a medical facility on wheels. |
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| 0:50.2 | Hello and welcome to you me in the big sea with me Steve Bland, otherwise known as |
| 0:51.2 | Steve Bland. |
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