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View Health chemo@home – Patient Newsletter Birak 2023

View Health chemo@home – Patient Newsletter Birak 2023

Welcome to our patient newsletter series. This newsletter was created during the Noongar Birak season, which is the season of the first summer and the season of the young. Through the newsletter, we aim to keep you updated on important health issues and helpful tips on staying well.   Birak patient newsletter Dec 2023

View Health chemo@home – Birak HCP 2023 Update

View Health chemo@home – Birak HCP 2023 Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home newsletter is available by clicking here.

View Health chemo@home – Makuru 2023 HCP Update

View Health chemo@home – Makuru 2023 HCP Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home newsletter is available by clicking here.

Patients Benefit from Immunotherapy Treatment Delivered at Home

Patients Benefit from Immunotherapy Treatment Delivered at Home

View Health – chemo@home and Patricia Cook, ECU PhD Candidate, collaborated on a recent project and the initial findings were presented at the recent Cancer Nursing Society of Australia annual meeting, titled “More than Just Convenience- Patient Experiences of Home-based Immunotherapy Infusions- A New Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT).” For the first time, the patient’s voice […]

IMMUNOTHERAPY AT HOME A RELIEF FOR JUDY

IMMUNOTHERAPY AT HOME A RELIEF FOR JUDY

Channel 7 Reporter Amber Johnson visited Judy and Johan Roets at their home in Perth to discuss what it is like to receive her cancer treatments with chemo@home, especially during the COVID pandemic.

FEMALE FOUNDED COMPANIES – FUNDING LESS FORTHCOMING

FEMALE FOUNDED COMPANIES – FUNDING LESS FORTHCOMING

A story today in the West Australian Business section, highlighting the issue of funding and investment in female-founded companies, featuring our Managing Director Julie Adams. View Health – chemo@home congratulates all the other women who were successful in receiving a Boosting Female Founders Grant in this round.  The grant we secured will be used to […]

WORLD CANCER DAY – GRAHAM’S STORY

WORLD CANCER DAY – GRAHAM’S STORY

Bupa shared the wonderful story below about our patient Graham on World Cancer Day. It is great to see our companies working together to close the gap in patient care. Without any other symptoms, it was abnormalities in Graham Brash’s annual blood test that led to his multiple myeloma diagnosis.  When discussing treatment options, his haematologist […]

COVID SELF CARE – PREPARING FOR WHAT IS TO COME

COVID SELF CARE – PREPARING FOR WHAT IS TO COME

To help prepare for covid-open and the increasingly likely chance that you and/or your family will be either a close contact or infected, here is some general helpful guidance. Get boosted as soon as due! It is clear that the triple vaccinated are faring better, though not as protected from Omicron as Delta. The unvaccinated […]

OUR FIST PATIENT NEWSLETTER IS BORN!

OUR FIST PATIENT NEWSLETTER IS BORN!

Welcome to the first in our patient newsletter series. This newsletter was created during the Noongar Kambarang season, which is aptly the season of birth. Though like many first babies, it is a few days overdue coming into the world! Through the newsletter, we aim to keep you updated on important health issues and helpful […]

View Health chemo@home – Djilba 2021 HCP Update

View Health chemo@home – Djilba 2021 HCP Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home newsletter is available by clicking here.

WORLD-WIDE SHORTAGE OF TOCILIZUMAB (ACTEMRA)

WORLD-WIDE SHORTAGE OF TOCILIZUMAB (ACTEMRA)

Tocilizumab is a monoclonal antibody to the interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor. IL-6 is produced by the immune system at the site of inflammation, and by blocking it from binding to its receptor, inflammation is prevented. Tocilizumab is a very useful medication for the treatment of a number of rheumatic conditions.   Seriously and critically unwell patients […]

WORRIED ABOUT COVID? OUR PATIENTS ARE IN SAFE HANDS

WORRIED ABOUT COVID? OUR PATIENTS ARE IN SAFE HANDS

At View Health – chemo@home we focus our love, attention, skill and experience on taking care of our patients and each other. We do this by ensuring our team are fully supplied and trained with the correct PPE and by being vaccinated. An amazing 96% of our nursing team are vaccinated against covid-19, and 76% […]

HOME COMFORT

HOME COMFORT

So wonderful to be able to help Tisa receive her chemotherapy treatment at home. Such an amazing woman.

ACKNOWLEDGING INTERNATIONAL MS DAY

ACKNOWLEDGING INTERNATIONAL MS DAY

Loren Bandy was swimming in a friend’s pool when she noticed that one side of her body just didn’t feel ‘right’.   “It was the strangest sensation – something about the water on one side of my body just felt strange.” Ms Bandy said.   “The same thing happened the next day in the shower, […]

BREAST CANCER; NEW SURGICAL APPROACHES AND PATIENT TREATMENT OPTIONS – Health Professionals Oncology Webinar Series 3

BREAST CANCER; NEW SURGICAL APPROACHES AND PATIENT TREATMENT OPTIONS – Health Professionals Oncology Webinar Series 3

Dr Ari Ariyapperuma (Medical Oncologist SJOG Subiaco and CliniConnect) Ari is a medical oncologist who has completed medical oncology training through NSW and WA hospitals. He completed his medical degree with Honours in clinical sciences and undertook a residency at Newham University Hospital in the United Kingdom. Ari has trained in medical oncology both in […]

IMMUNOTHERAPY AND ITS ROLE IN CANCER TODAY – Health Professionals Oncology Webinar Series 1

IMMUNOTHERAPY AND ITS ROLE IN CANCER TODAY – Health Professionals Oncology Webinar Series 1

  Dr Ari Ariyapperuma (Medical Oncologist SJOG Subiaco and CliniConnect) Ari is a medical oncologist who has completed medical oncology training through NSW and WA hospitals. He completed his medical degree with Honours in clinical sciences and undertook a residency at Newham University Hospital in the United Kingdom. Ari has trained in medical oncology both […]

HAVE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT RECEIVED CHEMOTHERAPY OR IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR CANCER OR A CHRONIC ILLNESS?

HAVE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT RECEIVED CHEMOTHERAPY OR IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR CANCER OR A CHRONIC ILLNESS?

Today we launch our new consumer group – “Consumer View”! The “Consumer View” functions as a consumer representative voice for people who are diagnosed with cancer or other chronic medical conditions and treated with View Health – chemo@home. The group supports a collaborative process to improve the patient experience and quality and safety of health […]

THE COVID-19 VACCINE – IS IT SAFE?

THE COVID-19 VACCINE – IS IT SAFE?

As the patients we treat are those at highest risk of serious health issues, and even death, from the COVID-19 virus, we thought we would take this opportunity to explain how the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine works in simple terms, to hopefully allay some fears. The human immune system is magnificent. Its job is to recognise […]

HBF SUPPORTING PATIENT’S LIKE BILL TO HAVE THEIR TREATMENT AT HOME.

HBF SUPPORTING PATIENT’S LIKE BILL TO HAVE THEIR TREATMENT AT HOME.

HBF was the first fund to partner with chemo@home. Now a national health provider they deliver over 140 different types of chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments across Australia to HBF members just like Bill. How wonderful is Bill’s story, not having to go to hospital for the treatment of his colitis for the last 3 years. […]

JUSTIN SKIPS HOSPITAL TRIPS WITH HBF AND CHEMO@HOME

JUSTIN SKIPS HOSPITAL TRIPS WITH HBF AND CHEMO@HOME

For Justin, juggling a busy lifestyle with going to hospital every six to eight weeks to receive infusions for Crohn’s disease, was difficult. But with chemo@home, Justin now gets his life-changing treatment on the go, freeing him up for life’s more important things. Read more about Justin’s story here.

NO BORDERS FOR AT HOME CHEMO CARE

NO BORDERS FOR AT HOME CHEMO CARE

The West Australian newspaper highlighting View Health – chemo@home’s use of Google Glasses to assist with managing the ongoing education of our geographically dispersed team during COVID-19, which has restricted our ability to travel interstate.   Thank you to our amazing nurse Richelle and patient Brittany and all the team who have made this possible. […]

Coronavirus Pandemic Leads to More at-home Cancer Treatments

Coronavirus Pandemic Leads to More at-home Cancer Treatments

COVID-19 has definitely made people more aware how safe it is to have treatment at home. The benefits are numerous including the rarely talked about financial benefits for the patient and their family (less travel costs, less parking costs, reduced day care costs for those with children, minimising loss of patient and carer income). COVID-19 […]

BUPA reports a surge in home chemotherapy in response to COVID-19

BUPA reports a surge in home chemotherapy in response to COVID-19

The growth in home based chemotherapy usage comes at a time when immune-suppressed patients, such as those living with cancer, seem to be choosing to avoid going to hospital due to their higher risk of contracting COVID-19 via community transmission. As trusted partners with BUPA we are honoured to be able to provide services to […]

View Health chemo@home Bunbury 2020 Update

View Health chemo@home Bunbury 2020 Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home newsletter highlighting our start up in Bunbury is available by clicking here

Avoiding Hospitals During COVID-19

Avoiding Hospitals During COVID-19

Avoiding hospitals by being treated at home when your immune system is low is a very sensible way of reducing the risk of COVID-19.  As featured on ABC News

View Health chemo@home COVID-19 2020 Update

View Health chemo@home COVID-19 2020 Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home newsletter highlighting our management of COVID-19 is available by clicking here

Reducing the Risk of COVID-19 (Coronovirus)

Reducing the Risk of COVID-19 (Coronovirus)

Sadly, the first report of an Australian dying from COVID-19 (coronovirus) has occurred at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in WA. Data from the  US highlights that the fatality rate from COVID-19 in people with other illnesses or compromised immune systems (such as those having chemo and immuno therapies) is about 15%, compared to 2% with […]

IT’S WORLD CANCER DAY

IT’S WORLD CANCER DAY

Our Managing Director, Julie Adams, talked today about how immunotherapy is offering new hope for cancer patients with 7AD’s Martin Agytin. And if you liked Julie’s explanation on the main types of immunotherapy treatments, using the army as an analogie, here it is again 😊: 1. Give the enemy red hats to make it easier for […]

Is Chemotherapy Still Important?

Is Chemotherapy Still Important?

Chemotherapy.  Our oncology day-units were built around delivering chemotherapy.  Our health care professionals trained to manage chemotherapy.  Our patient resources to inform about the side-effects of chemotherapy. But like a cool breeze turning into a brisk wind and then transforming into a howling gale, treatment for cancer and a whole range of medical conditions is […]

Hospitals don’t need to re-invent the wheel when it comes to home-based treatments

Hospitals don’t need to re-invent the wheel when it comes to home-based treatments

As one of the pioneers of home-based infusions and now Australia’s leading provider of these treatments, I was interested to read the recent opinion piece from Toby Hall, CEO of one of Australia’s leading providers of public and private hospitals. He argues very convincingly that Australia will need fewer hospitals, and that the healthcare model […]

Immune Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis at Home

Immune Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis at Home

Did you know chemo@home also administer infusions of immune therapies to treat MS. Treatment at home helps make people’s lives just that little bit easier. Watch this fabulous episode of Insight to see what living with MS is like, what challenges people face and the treatments which are improving lives. https://www.sbs.com.au/…/insig…/tvepisode/multiple-sclerosis

View Health chemo@home – Autumn 2019 Update

View Health chemo@home – Autumn 2019 Update

Especially for our health professionals and partners; the View Health – chemo@home Autumn newsletter is available by clicking here

Immunotherapy; Dramatically Changing the Treatment of Cancer

Immunotherapy; Dramatically Changing the Treatment of Cancer

Jenny Seaton from Curtin FM interviews chemo@home’s Managing Director, Julie Adams, on how immunotherapy medications are dramatically changing the treatment of cancer. A new and fascinating area which is offering a valuable option for some cancers where treament choices were limited, and improving the outcomes in other cancers. Listen to the interview here.

chemo@home Opens in VICTORIA!

chemo@home Opens in VICTORIA!

chemo@home has treated its first patients in VICTORIA. Our Victorian clinical team, headed by Nicole Walker, is being supported by the WA/SA chemo@home team as we develop and expand our services. Thank you to all the WA/SA chemo@home team, especially Richelle Finselbach, Alicia Hopper and Molly Wilkes for ensuring such a smooth start-up. If you, […]