All our staff in the Lancashire Haematology Centre are dedicated to patients with haematological conditions so you can rest assured the staff looking after you are enthusiastic and experienced. Your care plan will be detailed to your specific needs and you will be kept informed and involved every step of the way by your named CNS. To respect patient’s privacy, patients will stay in same sex bays while on the ward and in the single side rooms wherever necessary.
Each patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan can be different and we have tried to provide you details on what to expect using the tabs on the left but please speak to a member of our staff if you have more questions and view our Patient Information Leaflets and Glossary.
Haematology is the study of blood and blood-forming tissues and the disorders associated with them. Haematology includes the study, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention of diseases of the blood, which affect the production of blood and its components, for example, blood cells and haemoglobin.
Our expert medical and nursing staff at the Lancashire Haematology Centre treat patients with a wide variety of blood conditions and specialise in treating haematological disorders particularly Acute Leukaemia and conditions such as Lymphoma and Myeloma requiring autologous Stem Cell Transplantation. However a significant proportion of our patients who attend appointments for investigations do not have cancer.
Further information about specific conditions treated is available from the Macmillan website
This is a term given to a serious condition when there is infection associated with low blood counts, most commonly caused by chemotherapy. The term neutropenic refers to when there are low number of white blood cells called neutrophils in the blood. Neutropenic Sepsis is the presence of infection often in the blood stream, lungs etc in patients with neutropenia (low neutrophils). It is the most important and potentially very serious complication of treatment.
The key message is that patients who are having chemotherapy, who develop a temperature, should be rapidly seen by medical services for the treatment of neutropenic sepsis. This treatment needs to occur quickly. An information leaflet on neutropenic sepsis can be found here and a video explaining neutropenic sepsis in further detail can be found here.
Before your start chemotherapy our nursing staff will discuss the signs of Neutropenic Sepsis and the action you should take if these occur.
There is also a 24 hour helpline that you can call if you are concerned you are developing Neutropenic Sepsis. The telephone number is 01253 953403.
