The Greater Manchester Cancer Podcast GM Cancer

Personalised care is fundamental to delivering better quality care that is meaningful to the individual, supporting improvements in health and wellbeing. This will also help to empower people to manage their care and the impact of their cancer. Everyone is different and will have different concerns when they are diagnosed with cancer; therefore we need to ensure that patients are treated as people and they have the opportunity to discuss all of their concerns, whether during a hospital appointment or with their GP, and get the support they need.
In Greater Manchester, we have a large programme of work looking at all aspects of personalised care, and this new series of the GM Cancer Podcast will look at some of the specific areas that we’re working on. 
This episode looks at Holistic Needs Assessments – what are they and why are they so important? 
In this episode you will hear from:Lydia Briggs - Clinical Lead for Personalised Care - Greater Manchester Cancer AllianceCollette Kelly - Macmillan Lead for Personalised Cancer Care at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust  Mick Connelly - patient rep

In the first of a new monthly series looking at cancer in the news, host Steve Bland and Professor Matt Evison, the Associate Medical Director at GM Cancer, cast their eyes over the stories making the headlines in the first two months of 2024.
And it's been a busy one, with the news of the King's diagnosis, Olympian Chris Foy reluctantly revealing he had been receiving treatment, the death of tv chef Dave Myers, and groundbreaking research projects including a new national BRCA gene testing programme and a new bowel cancer screening programme for people with Lynch Syndrome.
Steve and Matt discuss the impact of celebrities going public with a diagnosis as well as the challenges in keeping the awareness message going.
Find out more about the GM Cancer Alliance here.Bowel Cancer Screening in England is in the process of expanding to eventually be available to everyone over 50. BRCA screening programme: J-BRCA (nhsjewishbrcaprogramme.org.uk) 

In the fourth episode of a series dedicated to exploring the health inequalities that exist in our cancer system in Greater Manchester, host Steve Bland and guests discuss how deprivation impacts cancer outcomes in the region, explore the issues around deprivation and health and ask, why does deprivation play such a big role in creating health inequalities?
Steve's guests in this episode are:Gemma Knox, an Advanced Nurse Practioner at the Glodwick Medical Practice
Dr Mary Marshall, a GP at the Village Medical Practice
Dan Clark, Health Inequalities Project Manager, GM Cancer Alliance
Links from this series:
AskDoc Bowel Cancer Screening - YouTubeBreast Cancer Now information about breast screening-  https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-scans/breast-screening/Jo’s Trust information about cervical screening - https://www.jostrust.org.uk/information/cervical-screening/what-is-cervical-screeningBowel Cancer UK information about bowel screening - https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/screening/Bee Seen Get Screened - https://www.answercancergm.org.uk/bee-seen/ 
People First (Tameside)GM Cancer Alliance

In the third episode of a series dedicated to exploring the health inequalities that exist in our cancer system in Greater Manchester, host Steve Bland and guests discuss inequalities that impact people with learning disabilities.
Steve heads back to People First in Tameside to chat to Jenny Jones and Carol Lonergan from the Penine Bowel Screening Service, and Leanne, who uses the support offered by People First.
Leanne explains the barriers and challenges that she faced around attending her cervical screen while Jenny and Carol talk about the work going on in GM to better support people with learning disabilites in all aspects of their cancer journey. 
Links from this episode:
AskDoc Bowel Cancer Screening - YouTubeBreast Cancer Now information about breast screening-  https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-scans/breast-screening/Jo’s Trust information about cervical screening - https://www.jostrust.org.uk/information/cervical-screening/what-is-cervical-screeningBowel Cancer UK information about bowel screening - https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/screening/Bee Seen Get Screened - https://www.answercancergm.org.uk/bee-seen/ 
People First (Tameside)

In the second episode of a series dedicated to exploring the health inequalities that exist in our cancer system in Greater Manchester, host Steve Bland and guests discuss inequalities that impact screening, especially bowel cancer screening and ask; Where are we seeing inequalities? Which groups of people are struggling to complete screening tests? And what are we doing to tackle the inequalities that exist?
Steve's guests are:Caroline Mattinson – Cancer Screening Improvement Lead, Pennine Bowel Screening ServiceHannah Stirzaker - Engagement and Development Worker at Answer Cancer  
Links from this episode:
Answer Cancer AskDoc Bowel Cancer Screening - YouTubeBreast Cancer Now information about breast screening-  https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-scans/breast-screening/ Jo’s Trust information about cervical screening - https://www.jostrust.org.uk/information/cervical-screening/what-is-cervical-screening Bowel Cancer UK information about bowel screening - https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/screening/ Bee Seen Get Screened - https://www.answercancergm.org.uk/bee-seen/ 
People First (Tameside)

In the first episode of a new series dedicated to exploring the health inequalities that exist in the cancer system in Greater Manchester, host Steve Bland chats to:
Professor Matt Evison - Associate Director at the GM Cancer Alliance Dr Alison Pye - Consultant in Public HealthFarida Anderson - patient rep on the health inequalities board 
Steve and guests explore questions like what are health inequalities? What impact do health inequalities have on cancer? And what sort of issues do people affected by different types of health inequality have at different points in the pathway? 
We also talk about the plans and strategies to combat these challenges including, Core20plus5, the GM ICP strategy and finally the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance strategy and ask 'how do they all fit together?'
We’d love to hear from you – what are your views on the topics discussed today? Please visit www.gmcancer.org.uk/podcast and send us a message or check out GM Cancer on social media.
Links from this episode:
NHS Long Term Plan - NHS Long Term Plan
Core 20 Plus 5 NHS England » Core20PLUS5 – An approach to reducing health inequalities for children and young people
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Strategy - Improving health and care in Greater Manchester | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk) 
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Joint Forward Plan Joint Forward Plan | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Fairer Health for All Framework - Fairer Health for All | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)
10GM: Home (10gm.org.uk)