CANCER INFORMTAION

CERVICAL SCREENING

CANCER SCREENING FOR PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Patients booking in by telephone or online who meet the case definition will be directed to NHS 111.

An unwell patient with a relevant travel history should be identified when they book in at reception and immediately placed in a room away from other patients and staff. If COVID-19 is considered possible when a consultation is already in progress, withdraw from the room, close the door and wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

Avoid physical examination of a suspected case. The patient should remain in the room with the door closed. Belongings and waste should remain in the room. The patient and any accompanying family should remain in the room with the door closed.

Advise others not to enter the room. If a clinical history still needs to be obtained or completed, do this by telephone.

If entry to the room or contact with the patient is unavoidable in an emergency, wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in line with standard infection control precautions, such as gloves, apron and fluid resistant surgical mask (FRSM) and keep exposure to a minimum. All PPE in full should be disposed of as clinical waste.

Should the patient need to use the toilet, they should be allocated a WC for their sole use. Instruct the patient to wash their hands thoroughly after toileting, and return directly to the room they have been isolated in and close the door. The toilet should be taken out of use until cleaned and disinfected following the decontamination guidance.

Ask the patient to call NHS 111 from their room, on their mobile (use GP surgery landline if mobile unavailable).

When a telephone interview is being conducted with a patient located elsewhere (for example at home) and it is determined that COVID-19 is possible (based on the PHE criteria for a possible case), then a face-to-face assessment in primary care (including out-of-hours centres and GP hubs) must be avoided. Instead, call the local secondary care infection specialist to discuss safe assessment, if hospital care is being considered, if not refer to NHS 111.

 Your Voice Matters

Please join our Patient Participation Group  

The next PPG meeting will be held on Tuesday 16th January 2024 @6.00pm onsite at the surgery premises

 The Breast Screening Hub

Ladies aged 50 up to their 71st birthday, from, The Medical Centre, will be invited for breast screening. Invitations for screening will be sent some time between the 50th and 53rd birthdays. 

Ladies who missed their appointment can contact the HUB to reschedule. We would  encourage you to do this . This also applies for ladies age 71 or over, who will need to request their mammogram themselves by contacting the HUB.

The HUB number is: 0203 758 2024. There is however a queue to get through to the HUB during peak hour. Ladies can also change their appointment date, time or request another site by completing the appointment request form found on : https://www.london-breastscreening.org.uk/ChangeAppFormW2.aspx 

Candi recovery College

You can find the course guide and calendar on our webpage  www.candi.nhs.uk/recoverycollege   

 

Some of the courses for the online curriculum this term are

 Alone but not lonely

Assertiveness for all

Being kind to yourself

Building healthy relationships

Coping with anxiety

Finding your mental wealth

Making the most of your money

Understanding anger 

Safe Surgery GP practice

The Medical Centre is a Safe Surgery GP practice  which is committed to taking steps to tackle the barriers faced by many migrants in accessing healthcare. As a  ‘Safe Surgery’  the Medical Centre in Islington is open for everyone and we ensure  that lack of ID or proof of address, immigration status or language are not barriers to patient registration.

 

September/October 2023 Pride in Practice Newsletter Hello! This month, Pride in Practice is delighted to bring you: Pride in Practice Steering Group Update  LGBTQ+ Patient Experience Survey 2023 Gala Boost for Pride in Ageing Patient's Association Outpatient Strategy Black Beetle Health UK Cancer & Transition Service Your Pride in Practice Team   And, as always, if you want to develop LGBTQ+ inclusion.... ....in your primary care organisation, contact our Pride in Practice team! ....in another organisation, our Training Academy can support you!   Pride in Practice Steering Group Update   Our next Pride in Practice Steering Group meeting will take place on Thursday 5th October 2- 4pm. Thank you to everyone who attended our first official Pride in Practice Steering Group in July.   We discussed the future of the Pride in Practice award and how to recognise and celebrate practices who are really driving forward LGBTQ+ inclusion.  We’re incredibly excited to have received such fantastic engagement from a diverse range of people.   We’ll being building on this discussion and sharing how your feedback is helping to share the future of our work. We value contributions from stakeholders who wish to support the development of Pride in Practice and wider LGBTQ+ inclusion in healthcare If you are interested in attending this steering group (now or in the future), or would like more details about the previous event, please contact pip@lgbt.foundation     Pride in Practice LGBTQ+ Patient Experience Survey  GP Update 2023   LGBT Foundation are excited to announce the publication of a new resource – the Pride in Practice LGBTQ+ Patient Experience Survey – GP Update. This is the latest in a series of surveys carried out since 2014 tracking the experiences of LGBTQ+ people accessing primary healthcare. Our most recent survey adds, an extra level of insight and detail to experiences collected in previous years. In this resource, we have chosen to spotlight experiences at GP practices, and have developed an asset that will raise up LGBTQ+ voices and support primary care stakeholders and services in developing inclusive practice.   This resource has also been highlighted in an article on the Pulse Today website and we hope that others across primary care and beyond will be able to use this resource to further develop LGBTQ+ inclusion in healthcare.   LGBT Foundation's Pride in Ageing service receive another boost from Barclays Gala fundraising event On Thursday 21st September Barclays Spectrum hosted a Gala Dinner in aid of LGBT Foundation's Pride in Ageing service and raised an estimated £80,000 for our programme which works to support older LGBTQ+  people in Greater Manchester. This programme was set up in 2019 in response to concerns that too many lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people over the age of 50 are living in isolation and facing discrimination as a direct result of their sexual orientation or gender identity. There is so much fantastic work happening so to find out more please head over to: https://lgbt.foundation/prideinageing Patient's Association New Outpatient Strategy   The Patients Association is working with NHS England and the Royal College of Physicians on the development of a new outpatient strategy, which will be launched early next year. You can learn more about the project in this blog  written by Sarah Tilsed, Head of Patient Partnership. If you use the health and social care system and would like to use your experience by being involved in similar work in the future with a variety of organisations, you can sign up as a free member of the Patients Association. And if you are an organisation that would like to work with the Patients Association, please get in contact with Sarah at Sarah.Tilsed@Patients-Association.org.uk.   Black Beetle Health    Black Beetle Health is a public health community organisation and registered charity dedicated to promoting health, wellbeing and equality for LGBTQ+ communities of colour by shedding light on important health disparities among these communities. They have provide many useful resources including an Advocacy Toolkit to support  with promoting health, wellbeing and equality for LGBTQ+ Black and People of Colour (LGBTQ+ BPoC)   UK Cancer and Transition Service (UCATS)     UCATS is a new clinical service to improve the care of transgender, non-binary and gender diverse people affected by cancer.   UCATS is a multidisciplinary service comprising of healthcare professionals working within oncology and gender affirming care who provide individualised clinical advice for patients who require input that considers both of these aspects. They offer virtual clinic appointments to review both gender and cancer care.     Any healthcare professional (e.g. oncologists, surgeons, GP, gender clinicians, specialist nurses) can make a referral, as can the patient themselves.   For more information you can visit their website at: https://www.wearetransplus.co.uk/uk-cancer-and-transition-service/   To request printed copies of the UCATS patient leaflet or for further information or advice, please contact: chelwest.ucats@nhs.net