Congratulations to the SW Regional Late Effects team who won the Macmillan Cancer Support award for Innovation Excellence last night at a ceremony in Glasgow Late Effects Lisa Somerset NHS Foundation Trust SCoR Members Jo Petra Jankowska Abbie Furnival

Brilliant discussion and presentation about #compassion today UKIOCongress with Dr Amy Hancock (Taylor) 🏳️‍🌈Dr Emma Hyde PhD, MEd, BSc, NTF, FHEA🏳️‍🌈 Simon Goldsworthy
Very important to look after and show compassion for our patients, colleagues and ourself #UKIO23

Thanks to Simon Goldsworthy and Dr Martine Harris 💙 for presenting part of their doctoral findings in yesterdays Doctorate Research in Radiography session UKIOCongress ⭐️ Amazing work which contributes to the growing evidence base undertaken by SCoR Members ⭐️ #UKIO2023

Vital take home message by Simon Goldsworthy, Amy Hancock and Ionna Nixon is that extending compassion to ourselves is just as important as the care we show our patients and others. How many of these do you raise your hand for? #ukio2023

What a week....

Simon Goldsworthy got two of his #PhD papers accepted in 1 day. Massive Congrats Simon!

Vas Lepesis defended successfully his #Phd viva.

And 20+ #PhD students of PSU Graduate School followed my classes and 1:1 meets for their papers in #hatyai , #Thailand

We are exited to inform you that two more studies in Comfort study series have been published:
#1 A thematic exploration of patient and radiation therapist solutions to improve comfort during radiotherapy: a qualitative study
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust UWE Health Research

authors.elsevier.com/a/1hRvg6v4mTSt…

#2 Identifying core components of a radiotherapy comfort intervention package using nominal group technique

authors.elsevier.com/a/1hUxq3rIt1He…

Can you help to design a clinical trial to improve radiotherapy treatment for people with breast cancer with a higher risk of the cancer returning?

Please contact the FAST forward team if interested by emailing [email protected]

📢 Article available online! 📱💻

📰 Identifying core components of a #radiotherapy comfort intervention package using nominal group technique

Simon Goldsworthy et al
radiographyonline.com/article/S1078-…

🧡Inspired by the global success of くろすけん - would any of our worldwide #Radiotherapy community like to join this year's #Miles4Radiotherapy summer challenge?

The Global Coalition for Radiotherapy ESTRO

bit.ly/3LpJLu3

Not data: but reassuring consensus from a *very* expert panel:

Vaginal estrogen replacement for women on AI after #breastcancer

Majority supported #SGBCC2023

Some of the team are off to #estro23 to support Late Effects Lisa and Samantha Bostock sharing our work! Zoe Walker

Late Effects Lisa presenting the #prda best practice pathway at #ESTRO23 PRDA UK

Late Effects Lisa championing new model of care for provision of #RTT led regional #lateeffects services. Innovation to action in practice! 👏👏 #collaboration #upskill #selfreferral #ESTRO23

Great talk with strategies to consider to improve comfort for #radiotherapy patients - also referenced patient comfort work by Simon Goldsworthy along with work by Prof Heidi Probst 🇺🇦

Great presentation on shared decision making. Patients need to have all the information, including potential late effects, to make the right choice for them #ESTRO23

We need more radiographers!! RT widely and spread the word 👇🏼💯
#cancercare #NationalCareersWeek DrJoMorrison Julie Walther Joanne Botten 💙 Simon Goldsworthy MPHRadiotherapy Tom Roques Una Findlay Benjamin Roe Charlotte Beardmore CBE

We are excited to inform you that our interviews with patients and therapeutic radiographers #1 is now in press:
Patient and therapeutic radiographer experiences of comfort during the radiotherapy pathway: A qualitative study radiographyonline.com/article/S1078-…

📢Article available online now!📱💻

📰Patient and therapeutic #radiographer experiences of comfort during the radiotherapy pathway: A qualitative study

Simon Goldsworthy et al
radiographyonline.com/article/S1078-…

Our amazing radiotherapy team has received glowing praise from our patients 🙌

In a recent survey, 100% of respondents were either satisfied or very satisfied with their experience, and 93% agreed they were treated with care, kindness, dignity, and respect. Go team! ⭐️💙