UK-Prostate Awareness Road shows

This is from the Graham Fulford Charitable Trust which has been mentioned before on this blog and I hope they along with Mediwatch are okay about me highlighting this below along with a link at BOP for the full manual

Prostate Awareness Road shows

 Including Point Of Care Testing

 Event Guidance Manual 

 First Prepared: August 2011

Guidance Manual

Contents

• Introduction

• Background

• How To Get Started

• How To Run Ongoing Road Shows

• Post Road Show Activities

• Conclusion

• Appendices

Introduction
This manual has been developed as a guide to groups putting on
Prostate Health Awareness road shows including PSA tests using the
Mediwatch PSA watch Bioscan which is designed to give an “indicative” PSA score within ten minutes of the sample being processed. By definition this manual is embryonic and user’s feedback will be much appreciated.



Background

The Graham Fulford Charitable Trust was formed by Graham Fulford
late 2004 having had a very dear friend and a close relative diagnosed with prostate cancer. Sadly both lost their fight against this insidious disease having, like many, been diagnosed too late.

Over the last 7 years the Trust has, working closely with David Baxter
Smith M.A,M.Sc.,B.A.O.,F.R.C.S. Consultant Urological Surgeon and the Kidderminster Prostate Cancer Support Group carried out approaching 18,000 PSA tests all over the country and have found in excess of 422 prostate cancers at the time of writing. During this period the trust has been liaising with Mediwatch to help them refine the accuracy of the testing strips used by their PSA watch point of care Bioscan machine.


The great advantage of using these is not only the speed of response of getting the result (10 minutes as against up to 14 days) but also the flexibility it gives in enabling regular events to be held in local
communities without the need for large halls and very expensive lab machines etc.

This manual is designed to help a launch of using these machines more widely. In effect any “group” having Bioscans and a pool of helpers (particularly people trained in the operation of the Bioscan) can offer a “stand alone” awareness facility. Having used the term “stand alone” it is essential to understand all such groups will have the full support of TGFCT (with the experience gained in holding in excess of 100 events all over the country) David Baxter Smith and the team at Mediwatch.


Please feel free to contact them at any time.