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Please can you donate to Ptarmigan Media’s JustGiving page and support this amazing company who are raising funds for the OPA for their second year running!
They are hosting another Golf Day in appreciation of the work we do! This event will take place on Tuesday September 10th 2019.
Special thanks to David Wiggin and his fab team!!
See David’s story of why he wants to help the OPA to help patients, carers and their families on the link below…
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Recognising that after surgery for oesophageal or gastric cancer, patients often cannot eat full restaurant portions, OPA has devised a two sided card that can be discreetly shown to waiting staff in a restaurant. The first side states “Due to a medical condition I require urgent access to toilet facilities”. The second side states “Due to a medical condition I am unable to eat normal portions of food. Please provide me with a child’s size portion”. We have these cards in the following languages:
If you wish to order these, free of charge, visit the OPA Online Shop below.
The OPA are now on TheGivingMachine!!!
This is an easy way to donate to the OPA through shopping online, all you have to do is to remember to shop through the link below and choose the OPA as your chosen charity – with no extra cost to your purchases… it really is that simple !
https://www.thegivingmachine.co.uk/causes/oesophageal-patients-association/support
We have been contacted by the Principle Researcher James Butterworth who is based at Imperial College London, who is urgently in need of volunteers to take part in a research study.
Thank you so much to all of you who have participated in this research project and completed this survey already.
If any of you have not yet completed the survey and would like to partake in this study, please sign a consent form attached below, and then complete the survey using the following link:
Patient Perspective on Quality of Surgery
If you have any questions or queries, please contact James via email –
james.butterworth12@imperial.ac.uk
James W Butterworth
MBBS BMedSci MSc (Hons) DIC MRCS (Ed)
Clinical Research Fellow
Department of Cancer and Surgery
Imperial College London
Kensington
London
SW7 2AZ
If you have previously participated in the February initiative then there is no need to submit again.
Welcome Professor Janusz Jankowski to Team OPA !!!
Professor Janusz Jankowski is a doctor, educationalist, researcher, writer and health policy expert – The OPA are delighted to have him on board.
Watch Ewen Griffiths, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, perform an oesophagectomy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (@qehbham) on Getting better series 2 episode of ‘Surgeons: At the edge of life’, which was screened on BBC2 at 21.00 on Tuesday 7th May 2019.
If you missed the episode, click on the link here – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004w2q/surgeons-at-the-edge-of-life-series-2-5-getting-better
Join the Fight against Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer Leaflet is now available to order on our online shop…
In this issue we have some exciting news about our Patron – Fiona Wade, new research and trials information, the latest National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit patient report and the Bed Wedge Offer has been extended.
The National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit (NOGCA) evaluates the quality of NHS hospital care in England and Wales for people diagnosed with oesophageal or gastric (OG) cancer.
NOGCA has recently published its annual Patient Report which highlights key findings from the 2018 Annual Report and describes the care that most patients can expect to receive in NHS hospitals. The report is designed to provide patients and their family members with information about the various treatments that patients can receive after being diagnosed with OG cancer.
The Patient Report is available as a pdf via this link: www.nogca.org.uk/reports/2018-patient-report/
Each year, NOGCA publishes an Annual Report to help hospitals to find out what they are doing well and to identify aspects of care that could be improved. For example, the report describes the typical length of hospital stay and short-term survival after surgery, both of which have improved over the last decade. The 2018 Annual Report also showed regional variation in the use of non-curative treatments such as palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
The audit team welcome your feedback on the 2018 Patient Report and your suggestions for future reports. If you have any comments, ideas or suggestions, please email: og.cancer@nhs.net
The OPA is represented on the Audit Steering Group by an OPA Trustee, John Taylor (OPA Leeds co-ordinator).
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