What is Patient VIEW?
Patient VIEW - initially known as our patient panel - is just one of the ways in which West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance is working with those affected by cancer across our area - patients and their families, carers, service users - to ensure their experiences and views influence the work that we do and the decisions we take.
The Cancer Alliance is now working in partnership with the patient-led charity, Yorkshire Cancer Community, to deliver the panel and ensure connections are made through local communities with people who may not previously have engaged with the panel.
Panel members are involved through face to face sessions; online discussions; sharing views and ideas by email; one to one telephone calls and flexibly in other ways that work best for them.
Tackling health inequality across West Yorkshire and Harrogate (the avoidable differences that exist in people’s health and treatment outcomes between different groups and communities) is a high priority for the Cancer Alliance.
To support us in this work, we want to ensure that the membership of the panel is as diverse as possible, in terms of where people live; the type(s) of cancer they are experiencing or have experienced; the communities they come from and their personal backgrounds and circumstances.
If you would like to find out more or to join the panel, email YCC Project Lead Jess Hart, jess@yorkshirecancercommunity.co.uk or Becky Stokes, Programme Manager for Patient and Carer Experience rebecca.stokes26@nhs.net.
Visit the Patient VIEW section of the Yorkshire Cancer Community website
