Comments on: Building for better cancer care http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/2009/11/27/building-for-better-cancer-care/ Bite-size thoughts from TFC people about trends, futures and cultural change to provoke and entertain Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thenextwavefutures http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/2009/11/27/building-for-better-cancer-care/#comment-467 thenextwavefutures Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:47:21 +0000 http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/?p=1379#comment-467 Andrew Curry writes: More coverage of this work - this time in the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/6839247/Teenage-cancer-unit-like-home-but-fun.html Andrew Curry writes:

More coverage of this work – this time in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/6839247/Teenage-cancer-unit-like-home-but-fun.html

]]> By: thenextwavefutures http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/2009/11/27/building-for-better-cancer-care/#comment-445 thenextwavefutures Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:30:23 +0000 http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/?p=1379#comment-445 The journalist Matthew Engel, perhaps by coincidence, has a moving letter in today's Guardian on the subject of the planned Teenage Cancer Trust centre in Brimingham: "Four years ago Guardian Weekend published an article of mine about the death, from cancer, of my 13-year-old son Laurie (The day the sky fell in, 3 December 2005). The piece may have had a greater impact than the thousands of other pieces I wrote for the paper put together. It talked, among other things, about the poor conditions Laurie endured at Birmingham children's hospital. At the time, my wife and I had a hopeless fantasy about opening a Teenage Cancer Trust unit there to provide the kind of facilities patients and staff deserve. Next week the builders are due to hand over a £2.5m unit (mostly but not totally paid for). It should be ready for patients early next year, and will transform their lives." http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/02/cancer-late-diagnosis-gp-patients [Scroll down] The journalist Matthew Engel, perhaps by coincidence, has a moving letter in today’s Guardian on the subject of the planned Teenage Cancer Trust centre in Brimingham:
“Four years ago Guardian Weekend published an article of mine about the death, from cancer, of my 13-year-old son Laurie (The day the sky fell in, 3 December 2005). The piece may have had a greater impact than the thousands of other pieces I wrote for the paper put together.

It talked, among other things, about the poor conditions Laurie endured at Birmingham children’s hospital. At the time, my wife and I had a hopeless fantasy about opening a Teenage Cancer Trust unit there to provide the kind of facilities patients and staff deserve. Next week the builders are due to hand over a £2.5m unit (mostly but not totally paid for). It should be ready for patients early next year, and will transform their lives.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/02/cancer-late-diagnosis-gp-patients [Scroll down]

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