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Achievement Award for Jill Ferguson
Wednesday 31st August 2016
Our congratulations go to Jill Ferguson, Prostate Survivorship Nurse Specialist, who has been awarded the 2016 NurThe award was presented due to the successful embedding of a nurse-led survivorship programme into our pathway for men with prostate cancer . The survivorship programme aims to provide support in one to one appointments, education events , small…
Read more »Freeman Hospital improves bladder cancer care
Wednesday 17th June 2015
In addition to the established weekly Multidisciplinary Uro-oncology Team Meeting (MDT), the bladder cancer specialists within the urology department (Mr Bach, Mr Heer, Mr Johnson and Mr Paez) have initiated a weekly bladder cancer meeting together with the bladder cancer specialist nurse Sister Robson and the stoma nurses Sister Moore and Sister Gregor. Patients with…
Read more »Prostate Cancer Survivorship Programme Starts at the Freeman Hospital
Friday 17th April 2015
More people today are surviving prostate cancer than ever before thanks to advances in detection, diagnosis and treatment. There is now increasing recognition that men’s prostate cancer experience extends after treatment with many men and their partners having ongoing issues and needs, which are not addressed by conventional follow up. Patients with prostate cancer attending…
Read more »Study wins International award for Freeman Hospital
Sunday 29th March 2015
A project from Newcastle Urology at The Freeman Hospital presented recently at the Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society in Brazil has won an award for Best Poster presentation. Whilst at the conference Miss Morton (urology registrar) presented a poster with results from the group of patients undergoing artificial urinary sphincter insertion over the…
Read more »National recognition for Newcastle Urology team
Sunday 29th March 2015
A team from Newcastle Urology has won a national award at the British Association of Urology Nurses (BAUN) conference for their innovative work on review of patients following bladder outlet surgery. Tracy Ord, Victoria Lavin and Chris Harding audited the nurse-led telephone review service which is carried out at three months post operatively by Functional…
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