An NHS patient is live-tweeting what it's like living with cancer

LONDON — The UK's National Health Service has launched a new initiative to show the personal stories behind the huge organisation.

The initiative — which began Monday to coincide with the launch of the NHS' official Twitter account — will see a different NHS patient or member of staff become curator each week over a three-month period. 

Cancer patient Richard Orchard — who's currently a patient at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust — is the first to take over the account. 

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Orchard will be sharing his experience of living with and being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer all this week.  Read more...

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