Specialist Screening Nurses from The MOLE Clinic, the only UK private clinic group dedicated to skin cancer screening, visited Manchester Rugby Club over the weekend to provide mole checks for the players, as part of a new national initiative to promote early detection.
The club was the first sports association, across several throughout the UK to come on board and show their support for The MOLE Clinic’s campaign, in raising awareness of the importance of regular screening to help improve UK survival rates.
The attending nurses, who are based in the Central Manchester branch of The MOLE Clinic, provided both Full Body Skin Checks and Single Mole Checks to the senior men’s and women’s sections at the club.
Emma Jones, Marketing Director at The MOLE Clinic explains;
“We are keen to reach right into the heart of the community with our life-saving, early detection campaign, and having the support of well-established and highly regarded regional associations such as Manchester Rugby Club is ideal for amplifying the message.
“At The MOLE Clinic, we recognise that outdoor sports players are subjected to high levels of UV exposure, increasing their risk factor of developing skin cancer.
“As part of our mission to help lower the UK skin cancer mortality rate by detecting skin cancers early, we are delighted to have successfully kickstarted our community Skin Cancer Screening Programme.
“Our Screening Nurses will be travelling to a range of different outdoor sports clubs across the UK, to raise awareness for early detection, and provide sportsmen & women with peace of mind.
“We are delighted to have rounded off a positive weekend filled with Skin Cancer Screening sessions for the team members at Manchester Rugby Club, offering complimentary Single Mole Checks and Full Body Skin Checks for the men’s & women’s teams.”
Tim Holmes, Chair of Rugby at Manchester Rugby Club states:
“Our players spend a lot of time training and playing matches outdoors, and therefore are more exposed to the sun on a regular basis. We were only too happy to welcome The MOLE Clinic nurses, with their advanced screening equipment, into the club.
“Raising awareness for early skin cancer detection resonates with Manchester Rugby Club’s philosophy, as we are always keen to support our players with impactful initiatives.
“As skin cancer is highly treatable if caught early enough, we would encourage people in the community to have any suspicious moles checked straight away, and preferably go for annual checks.”
Building on its strong presence across the UK, with specialist medical teams treating more than 35,000 people every year at its clinics in London, Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow and now Manchester, The MOLE Clinic has partnered with Zeus PR to elevate its profile around each of the individual clinics, with an additional focus on boosting its presence in the North West.
The MOLE Clinic was founded by lawyer Iain Mack who was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer in 2002. He quickly became passionate about assisting others to detect skin cancers early to help improve UK survival rates. Iain subsequently founded The MOLE Clinic® in London in 2003 and pioneered skin cancer screening in the UK, and developed The Mole Clinic Screening Nurse Training Programme – the only such programme accredited by the Royal College of Nursing.
He also developed the UK’s first Skin Cancer Screening App using AI. The App has been used by NHS GPs since 2005, reducing NHS waiting times and costs. The App won the UK Patient Safety Awards and was exhibited in the London Science Museum. Iain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2005 and has been nominated as finalist in Laing Buisson Healthcare Awards for ‘Entrepreneurial Achievement’.
More information on The MOLE Clinic can be found at https://www.themoleclinic.co.uk/
