National award for cancer team
Date published: 14 August 2012
PENNINE Acute Hospital Trust’s breast cancer team has received a national NHS award for improving breast cancer services.
And the team will continue to care by spending prize money on post-operative bras for mastectomy patients.
The Pennine team was recognised for its success in cutting the length of patients’ hospital stay.
The trust’s consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon, Mohammed Shamim Absar, said: “We used to have an average post-surgery stay of 4.2 days. The total length of stay is now two days for mastectomy and 0.6 days for breast conservation patients.”
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