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Welcome to the Mid Trent Local Cancer Network Information for you (i4u) website.
This website has been designed to provide cancer patients, their carers, and healthcare professionals with access to current patient information resources and updates.
A key focus of the website is to keep you up to date with how Mid Trent is developing Information Prescriptions and Information Pathways for cancer patients.
Mid Trent was originally one of twenty pilots sites chosen to develop and test how information prescriptions might work. The pilot focussed on how Information Prescriptions (IP’s) were being delivered along four clinical cancer pathways: lung, head and neck, colorectal and gynaecology. Following the success of the pilot, IP's will now be developed for all clinical cancer pathways across Mid Trent. The aim of IP's is to ensure patients and carers get information that is appropriate, personalised and given at the right time throughout their cancer journey.
2010 Macmillan Mobile Information Bus Dates Confirmed
Submitted by vicky on March 17, 2010 - 05:00.
Patients, Carers and members of the public will have access to high quality cancer informtion when the Macmillan Mobile Information Bus aka. Beryl the bus visits Mid Trent in 2010. The unit is a fully equipped single deck bus and is staffed by qualified macmillan professionals. Beryl will be based in various locations throughout her visits to Mid Trent. The dates for visits this year are:
Monday 17th - Thursday 20th May 2010 - Nottinghamshire County Locations
Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August 2010 - Nottingham City Locations
Monday 22nd - Thursday 25th November 2010 - Lincolnshire Locations
Five Macmillan Cancer Information Centres officially open!
Submitted by amanda on March 17, 2010 - 05:00.Patients, carers and the public can now visit designated Macmillan Information Centres in each of the Hospital Trusts in Mid Trent. Centres can be found in:
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Lincoln County Hospital
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Pilgrim Hospital, Boston
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Grantham District Hospital
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City Hospital, Nottingham
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Kingsmill Hospital, Mansfield
The centres, funded by Macmillan Cancer Support work in partnership with local hospital Trusts, providing information and support to anyone affected by cancer, either directly or because a family member or friend has been diagnosed with cancer.
Information Prescriptions: End of Project Report Published
Submitted by MTCN on July 4, 2008 - 15:19.The National Information Prescription Pilot Project ended in March and the final report of Mid Trent Cancer Network has just been published. The reports outlines the project and what lessons have been learned. It also looks forward to the continued use and roll out the other areas of information prescriptions beyond the pilot phase.
Read the report here
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Knowledge is power in fight against cancer
Submitted by MTCN on June 11, 2008 - 12:29.The Mid Trent Cancer Network, based at Nottingham's hospitals, is one of just four cancer networks in the country to take part in a national trial of information prescriptions to help patients in the fight against cancer.
The new information prescriptions are designed to help patients regain control of their lives following a diagnosis of cancer, by ensuring they have the right information, in the right way, at the right time to enable them to make informed decisions about their treatment and the issues affecting them and their families.
Each prescription is tailored to meet the needs of every individual patient at that moment in time and is added to and expanded as the patient's treatment progresses. The prescriptions ensure all the information a patient will need is kept together in one place and can be taken from hospital clinic, to GP appointment and shared - at the discretion of the patient - with other support agencies and with friends, carers and family.
Patient Information Report Published
Submitted by MTCN on February 1, 2008 - 14:56.A report on The Patient Information Project 2004 - 2006 has been published by Cancerbackup, the national charity that specializes in giving information on all types of cancer. Working in conjunction with the Mid Trent Cancer Network this project aimed to help the Network become early adopters of the Supportive and Palliative Care Guidance for Adults with Cancer. The findings of the report have been used in the design and implementation of the Information Prescription Pilot Project.
For the purposes of the project the team concentrated on lung and head and neck cancer starting from the point of the patient's first symptoms. The research team carried out an evaluation of the information needs of those affected by these cancers with the aim of developing a model of cancer information delivery. They also made recommendations for best practice in these areas.
