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Norfolk Beer festival helps local cancer unit

Cheers to Priscilla Bacon Lodge


Specialist palliative care unit receives donation from Norwich Beer Festival 
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
A local specialist palliative care unit has received a significant donation from the organisers of the recent Norwich Beer Festival. Representatives from Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust’s [NCH&C] Priscilla Bacon Lodge received a cheque for £3,300 from Norwich and Norfolk Campaign for Real Ale [CAMRA] at an event held on 26 January.
The 16–bed inpatient unit, on Unthank Road, Norwich, is provided by NCH&C and offers specialist palliative care, advice and support to people with life–limiting illnesses, such as cancer or motor–neurone disease, and their family and friends.

Carers who help cancer sufferers are missing out on getting help

Millions of cancer carers missing out on benefits

More than a million cancer carers could be missing out on benefits and support because they are failing to ask their local councils for help to which they are entitled, a charity claims.

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7:30AM GMT 27 Jan 2012

46 per cent of carers, who help cancer sufferers, suffer from mental health problems including stress, anxiety and depression

Just five per cent of the 1.1 million people in Britain who care for cancer sufferers have applied for an assessment from their council which would entitle them to claim financial and practical help, a poll shows.

Minister denies cancer test pressure

Care services minister Paul Burstow has denied suggestions from a DH adviser that GPs are being pressured to reduce use of a cancer test.

By Stephen Robinson, 26 January 2012
Mr Burstow: ‘All patients who need to have access to this test should receive it’

Yorkshire GP Dr Nick Summerton, a DH cancer adviser, had said that a letter sent to practices in the north of England implied GPs had over-used an ovarian cancer test and should audit appropriate use.

But Mr Burstow refuted the suggestion. ‘Doctors are not being pressured to reduce their use of this ovarian cancer test, and all patients who need to have access to this test should receive it,’ he said.