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Your healthcare appointments

Your appointments with your healthcare team are an important part of the management of your lymphoma. Getting the best out of your appointment might include understanding more about your medical team, focusing on what is important for you in your healthcare management, planning what you want to get out of your appointments, and feeling confident to talk to your medical team and asking questions or express any concerns you have.

Here we include some video resources that focus on understanding your medical team, planning and preparing for your appointments, and having good communication with your medical team.

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Supporting conversations with your healthcare team

The role of the multidisciplinary team in the management of lymphoma

Getting the best from your medical apppointments

Accessing your GP


Supporting conversations with your healthcare team

If you have lymphoma, you are likely to have to communicate with many different healthcare professionals around your symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, ongoing management, and lifestyle. This can involve many different people, from your GP or A&E staff, to nurses, consultants, and a range of other health professionals along each stage of your experience of lymphoma. 

This video was filmed during a live webinar on 15 December 2022. The webinar covered having the confidence to actively participate in conversations and decisions around your healthcare, and hearing the experiences of peers (people with lived experience of lymphoma) and healthcare professionals around communication strategies.

Watch our webinar where the expert speaker panel was Dr Wendy Osborne, Consultant Haematologist, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who was joined by Mike and Lesley, two individuals with lymphoma.

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Sources of information mentioned in the video

You can read more about active monitoring on our website here.
You can find a list of questions to ask your medical team here.
Find out more about our closed Facebook group here.
Find out more about Maggie's centres here.

The role of the multidisciplinary team in the management of lymphoma

The multidisciplinary team (MDT) is an essential team in the diagnosis, treatment and management of lymphoma. If you’ve heard of the MDT and want to know more about who is involved and how they decide the best course of treatment, you might like to watch this video.

This video was filmed during a live webinar on 7 March 2022. Our panel of expert speakers discussed the role and value of the MDT and its members, and how bringing a group of different healthcare professionals together helps to ensure the best possible care for people with lymphoma. We were joined by Professor John Radford, Dr Bridget Wilkins, Jennifer Woods and Anya Aspinall.

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 Getting the best from your medical appointments

This video looks at how to get the best from your medical appointments, whether you have them in-person, by phone or by video.

This video was filmed during a live webinar on Friday 27 November 2020. We were joined by consultant Dr Pam McKay, advanced nurse practitioner Charlotte Bloodworth, and Mike and Sandra, who have lymphoma.

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You might also like to see our video on how to check your lymph nodes, and our list of questions to ask your doctors.


Accessing your GP

This video looks at how to make best use of your GP surgery’s services in the current climate, including changes in service delivery and provisions in place to ensure the safety of the clinically extremely vulnerable during visits to the surgery. 

This video was filmed during a live webinar on Tuesday 15 December 2020. We were joined by Dr Tom Kneale, RCGP North Wales Education, Dr Elaine Hampton, Macmillan GP Facilitator and Dr John Perkins, retired GP, living with blood cancer.

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You might also like to read our Top Tips for getting the most from your appointments, which come from our supporters and servcie users, and ourr suggested questions to ask your medical team.