NGS Macmillan Unit
01246 516496
Hospital Palliative Care Team
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The Supportive Care Team operates weekdays 08:00-16:00
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Angela Gascoigne - Lead Haematology CNS
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Tracey Small - Haematology CNS and Support Group Lead
Gemma Whitehead - Haematology CNS and LEM
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Alice Corbett - Haematology CNS
Rebecca Chadwick - Haematology Support Worker
Lisa Lowton - Haematology Support Worker
Shirley Wright - Haematology HCA
During your placement you will spend time between seven different teams to ensure you experience a patient pathway from diagnosis to living with and beyond cancer. The seven teams are listed below, some of which are lone services so if staff are on leave during your spoke you may not experience that speciality.
Some of your placement will take place in the new NGS Macmillan Unit which opened June 2017.
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Useful links and resources;
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Cancer Information and Support websites
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https://www.macmillan.org.uk​
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https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/
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https://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/?
gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_qmD9sL20wIVpr_tCh33WAwfEAAYAiAAEgIG2fD_BwE​
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http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/find-a-clinical-trial
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Acute Oncology and Cancer Unknown Primary
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Website
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Chemotherapy
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https://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/treating/chemotherapy/chemotherapy-explained
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Radiotherapy
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https://macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/treating/radiotherapy/radiotherapy-explained
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Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma
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http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/lung-cancer
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http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mesothelioma
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Principles of Palliative Care
Sympton Control in Palliative Care Presentation by the Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist:
Philosophy
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To provide the highest quality, holistic, patient centred care for all those in North Derbyshire affected by cancer, throughout all stages of their cancer journey, in a state of the art facility purposely built to the standard of the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark and beyond.
The Trust vision is to improve outcomes in cancer care and to provide the best patient experience possible with a particular emphasis on health and wellbeing bringing together high quality treatment, supportive care to ensure a truly holistic approach from diagnosis through to living with and beyond cancer to end of life.
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The NGS Macmillan Unit is built on the site of Chesterfield Royal Hospital and is a stand-alone building with an adjacent patient and visitors’ car park. It is connected to the main hospital by a covered bridge. This service will serve North Derbyshire population.