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Patients praise Sheffield Teaching Hospitals for cancer care experience
Patients have praised staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the care they provide. In the latest national cancer patient experience survey, the Trust scored highly in a number of key areas. In particular, quality of care was rated higher than the national average.
Ensuring patients and their families had information about support groups, were treated with dignity and respect, and involved in decisions about their care and treatment were also rated highly by patients. l 90% of respondents said they had received information about support groups, compared to a national average of 85%
l 85% of respondents said groups of doctors did not talk in front of them as if this they were not there, compared to a national average of 82%
l 97% said hospital staff told them who to contact if they worried about their condition or treatment post discharge, compared to a national average of 94%
l 89% of respondents said that, overall, they were always treated with dignity and respect while in hospital.
Anne Marie Russell, of Clifton Lane, Rotherham, agrees that the quality of care and support she has received while being treated for breast cancer has been first rate. “From the word go the care I have received has been excellent,” said Anne who went to her GP immediately after noticing a lump in her breast.
Anne received a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy following surgery in June last year. The emotional and practical support she
has been given from Weston Park Hospital’s dedicated cancer support centre has been pivotal: “The Cancer Support Centre has made all the difference in the world to me. I’ve had to fight cancer mentally as well as physically so being able to access supportive therapies, such as reflexology has been really reassuring and helpful.”
Karen Jessop, interim chief nurse at
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our staff work incredibly hard to ensure patients receive high quality, personalised care so we are really pleased to see this reflected in these survey results. However, we are never complacent, and we will now be looking to see where we can make further improvements.”
Sheffield named in world-leading diabetes project
Researchers from Sheffield are to play a leading role in a major international effort aimed at devising better treatments for people living with hypoglycaemia, a common and potentially serious complication of diabetes. The £23.6 million project, funded by the European Economic Community, which will run over four years and involves 10 countries and six UK centres, brings together world leaders from the field of diabetes, including clinicians from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and internationally renowned health economists from the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). The Hypo-RESOLVE Consortium will look to find better solutions to alleviate the burden and consequences of hypoglycaemia in people living with diabetes. Led by Professor Simon Heller, director of research and development and honorary consultant physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, the Sheffield team will amass all the published evidence on hypoglycaemia from 100 to 150 recently conducted clinical trials into an evidence-based, validated mega-database. This will bring together all the published knowledge of hypoglycaemia, and determine definitive glucose-lowering interventions which will enable clinicians to compare different treatments using the same baseline information. This, in turn, will improve understanding of the condition and the impact it has on people’s lives.
Around 400,000 people in the UK are currently living with type 1 diabetes.
NOVEMBER 2018
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