Trigger Warning: this episode discusses cancer, cancer screening, breast cancer, health inequalities and lack of access.

Episode 201: Part of the Education and Workforce Development Series (Part 67)

Description: In this powerful episode, Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara sit down with Hayley Gibson, Hayley Snowden and Sue Ormesher.

Hayley Gibson is the Principal Radiographer for Breast Imaging at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

With over 21 years of experience as a radiographer, Hayley is the Lead Radiographer for Breast Imaging and has lead initiatives to improve patient care and accessibility. She has a strong passion for addressing health inequalities in breast screening and actively engage with communities to understand barriers preventing attendance. By listening to patients and stakeholders, she works to implement meaningful improvements in the service, ensuring equitable access and better outcomes for all.

Hayley Snowden is the Health Inequalities Programme Manager for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance.

Hayley began her career in operational service delivery roles managing healthy community programmes. Hayley joined the Cancer Alliance a little over 4 years ago and has a passion for improving cancer outcomes for those experiencing health inequalities.

Sue Ormesher is the communications and engagement officer for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance.

Sue began her career as a journalist on regional newspapers in the North West of England, crossing over into communications for a wide range of public, private and third sector organisations.

This episode is a deep dive into their careers, health inequalities in West Yorkshire & Harrogate and what the cancer alliance is doing to tackle the inequalities.

CPD Reflection Points:

1. Reflect on and discuss how health inequalities effect the uptake of breast screening of people from deprived backgrounds, people from the global majority, those with disabilities, and individuals with language or health-literacy barriers.
2. Design a programme of work on how to increase uptake for one or more of these groups.
3. Using your programme, consider how you could implement this in your area and consider the stakeholders you would need to engage with make it a success.

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Links from the Episode:

• You Can Ask Me campaign
• OUTPatients Remove the Doubt Campaign Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance
• West Yorkshire & Harrogate Cancer Alliance
• Deprivation in England checker

Research links from the Episode:

• Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis Among Black Women: A Path Toward Equity
• Understanding barriers to breast screening: an online survey of non-attenders as part of a service evaluation in the breast screening programme in England
• Healthcare affordability and breast cancer screening uptake: an ecological analysis

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Trigger Warning: this episode discusses cancer, cancer treatment and side effects of cancer treatment.

Episode 200: Part of the Living With and Beyond Cancer Series (Part 68)

Description: In this powerful episode, Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara talk about radiotherapy side effects, why they happen and tumour site specific

CPD Reflection Points:

1. Reflect on your own clinical practice around explaining side effects of treatment to your patients.
2. Read the prehabilitation for people living with cancer clinical and implementation guidelines and consider how you could introduce prehabiliation for your patients.

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Links from the Episode:

• Royal College of Radiologists National Radiotherapy Consent Forms
• SECLA Physical Activity Resources
• Freedom of Interest Request NHS
• PRosPer module
• Social prescribing

Research links from the Episode:

• Multimodal prehabilitation service for patients with colorectal cancer: the challenges of implementation
• A randomized phase III trial of the impact of a structured exercise program on disease-free survival(DFS) in stage 3 or high-risk stage 2 colon cancer: Canadian Cancer Trials Group(CCTG) CO.21(CHALLENGE)

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