News
Newsletters
We produce a regular newsletter with details of the work taking place around the network. Past editions are available from the Downloads box on this page.
The Autumn 2012 edition was published in September and includes the following items:
- An update from Rachael Rowe on the future of the Dorset Cancer Network
- Information on the Gold Standard Framework (GSF) in care homes
- Invitation to GPs to attend ‘The Real Cost of Cancer’ an afternoon information exchange workshop being held at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester on 31 January 2013
- Information Prescriptions System - implementation update
- Rising Voices - a community choir for patients living with and beyond cancer
- Health Inclusion Partnership working - delivering NHS Cardiovascular Health Checks and cancer awareness to the communities throughout Dorset via the local agricultural and county shows
- Olympics and Paralympics volunteering
- Cancer as a long-term condition - a pilot course to develop practice nurse skills
- An 18 month pilot project being delivered by Dorset Advocacy along with Help and Care to help support older people is being funded by The Big Lottery Silver Dreams Fund and Macmillan Cancer Support
- Another successful year for the Dorset Cancer Research Network
- A chemotherapy leaflet written by patients for patients
- The Teenage Cancer Trust rocks the Albert Hall
- ‘A Moment to Shine’ - Emma Willis, Partnership Panel member and Olympic Torchbearer
- Morag Hood, Partnership Panel member and Olympic Torchbearer
- Lewis-Manning Hospice - celebrating 20 years of high quality hospice care with a new purpose built hospice
