JYOTI SHAH, Author at Jyoti Shah

Awareness Campaign of the Year Award

by JYOTI SHAH | Sep 29, 2016 | Burton Hospital, Prostate Cancer

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is so pleased to win the Awareness Campaign of the Year Award for its work on highlighting prostate cancer. The award was presented at the annual Burton Albion Community Trust (BACT) awards. Branded “A night to inspire,” the event...

BBC West Midlands

by JYOTI SHAH | Aug 3, 2016 | Burton Hospital, Cancer, Prostate Cancer

I must thank the great support BBC West Midlands has given us in profiling prostate cancer on 2nd August 2016 throughout the day on their news outlets. Our team from Burton Hospital worked with Burton Albion FC in screening 111 men. We were surprised to find that 8...

Prostate Cancer Screening

by JYOTI SHAH | Apr 3, 2016 | Burton Hospital, Cancer, Prostate Cancer

We were not sure how it was going to go, but our campaign to raise awareness about prostate cancer in the community has been successful. It was a collaboration between Burton’s Queens Hospital and Burton Albion Football Club where the idea was to encourage as...

International Women’s Day

by JYOTI SHAH | Mar 10, 2016 | Equality, NHS

Some fantastic events and ideas came across to mark International Women’s Day. It is also so wonderful that more and more countries are participating but sadly it is still not enough as there are many regions of the world who show little regard for equality. As...

Adopted by Macmillan

by JYOTI SHAH | Dec 18, 2015 | Cancer, Equality, NHS

I am honoured to be adopted by Macmillan. Normally it is the nurses and other professionals who get adopted, but it looks like that I am one of the first consultant surgeons to get such an opportunity. It is just not me but my team Sarah Minns and Tyra Stevens have...