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Radiotherapy

Posted By yellownp47

"Radiotherapy"

About: Cancer Services / Radiotherapy

(as a service user),

I was having radiotherapy at Ninewells and was concerned that the masks ( for neck and head tumour radiotherapy) were on display in a rack for all to see with the name of the patient, date of birth and CHI. That patient might want to keep their radiotherapy private and I would not like my name on display like that. I hope my feedback helps you store the masks differently 

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Response from Damian Parr, Head of Therapeutic Radiography Services, Radiotherapy, NHS Tayside about a year and a half ago
We are preparing to make a change
Damian Parr
Head of Therapeutic Radiography Services, Radiotherapy,
NHS Tayside

Submitted on 22/12/2023 at 11:32
Published on Care Opinion at 11:32

Dear yellowp47, thankyou you so much for feeding back your observation and highlighting this issue. My name is Damian, Head of therapeutic radiography, your observation is a very important one and we will seek to rectify as soon as possible as we always want to protect our patients privacy. Unfortunately, due to the amount of equipment we use alongside insufficient room size for storage we do struggle to find areas for the masks to be housed. While we investigate a solution I will ensure we utilise what space we have for the masks and that the storage holders are covered and therefore are not seen by our patients.

Once again thankyou for raising this and we wish you well in the future.

Damian

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Response from Damian Parr, Head of Therapeutic Radiography Services, Radiotherapy, NHS Tayside 16 months ago
We are preparing to make a change
Damian Parr
Head of Therapeutic Radiography Services, Radiotherapy,
NHS Tayside

Submitted on 22/01/2024 at 10:29
Published on Care Opinion at 10:41

Dear Yellow 47, I wanted to let you know that we are actioning some change to ensure we try to maintain privacy for our patients on the issues you highlighted. Our sowing room are currently creating us a cover for the racks we use for storage that will mean we can keep them less visible.

Once again thankyou for feeding this back to us and we wish you well.

Damian

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