This is a special episode of the GM Cancer podcast, celebrating the role of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) working in cancer care. AHPs are the third largest professional group within the NHS workforce made up of 14 diverse roles, including Occupational Therapists, Therapeutic Radiographers and Speech and Language Therapists.
In this episode, host Steve Bland and guests explore the journey into a specialist AHP role, raise awareness of Cancer specialist AHPs, empower AHPs to become specialists, highlight career opportunities and show how being a specialist AHP is so very, very rewarding.
Steve's guests are:
Siobhan Doherty – Project Support Officer – GM Cancer Alliance – Workforce & Education Team
Lindsay Sudell - Specialist AHP in Brain and CNS Tumour Rehabilitation
Ian Dempsey and Joanne Shaw – Ian is a neuro patient with a positive experience of his treatment throughout his long-term diagnosis. Joanne is Ian's wife and also joined the podcast.
In celebration of National AHP Day on 14th October 2024, GM Cancer is promoting the roles of Specialist Allied Health Professionals working in cancer care in Greater Manchester. Find out more
here.
The Alliance has a range of educational offerings and ways to get involved on the day.
- A toolkit with assets to support on your social media channels.
- A Greater Manchester Cancer Academy webinar ‘Allied Health Professionals in Cancer Webinar: Enhancing your Four Pillars of Practice’ on 14th October at 12:00 –13:00. Register your place.
- And this podcast!
What is The Greater Manchester Cancer Podcast?
Across cancer services in Greater Manchester, amazing work is happening every day. Frontline staff, managers, clinical leaders and people affected by cancer work together with the simple focus of making sure that every person throughout Greater Manchester is able to access a world class cancer service.
This podcast is all about sharing some of the work going on with the wider Greater Manchester Cancer workforce – that’s thousands of people across all areas of Greater Manchester, working in many different roles - and giving some of the fantastic people who do that work the opportunity to share their experiences with everyone.
In each episode, presenter Steve Bland (from the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C) will focus on a different topic and talk to some amazing guests so if there's anyone you'd like to hear from or a topic you want to see covered, please get in touch.
For more information about GM Cancer visit www.gmcancer.org.uk.