National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Day is a day to celebrate and highlight everything that the cancer nursing workforce does for patients in the UK-wide health sector every day.
Here at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we have 75 cancer CNS’s providing outstanding care to some of our most in need patients every day and helping them and their families through their cancer journey, covering areas including haematology, palliative care, acute oncology, breast and urology.
A cancer clinical nurse specialist is a qualified nurse. They deliver, person-centred care to patients, providing them with specialist support, which includes information about their type of cancer, treatment options and possible side effects. They support people from the point of diagnosis and continue to be involved in their care throughout their cancer treatment.
As part of the National Cancer CNS Day celebrations this year, we are focussing on some of our colleagues within the roles and hearing more about their experiences and what they enjoy most about providing care to patients.
Read more below as we speak with Min Zhang who moved the UK from China in 2005 and has been part of the MTW family for 15 years and Hannah Fotheringham from the Medway towns who has been qualified for 24 years.
Find out more about National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day.