Maureen’s story: an insider’s perspective on patient-centred care

In 2017, my colleague Professor Maryann Hardy and I successfully bid for £13,675 of funding from The College of Radiographers Industry Partnership Scheme (CoRIPS) to undertake a large scale research project to define informed measures of patient-centred care (PCC) in diagnostic radiography. The research project was in its early stages when my mother-in-law Maureen was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, with a life expectancy of 12-15 months. Maureen’s diagnosis and treatment was ongoing throughout the time the PCC research project ran. She sadly passed away at the end of August 2020, nearly two years after her initial diagnosis. The insider perspective of being one of Maureen’s carers during this time provided me with a vivid insight into the lived experience of an oncology patient that I would like to share with you in the context of the PCC project.

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