The GWH Macmillan Personalised Care Team are a group of trained professionals who can help in your recovery and self-management of symptoms after diagnosis and treatment.
They are based at GWH and consist of a variety of specialisms such a Clinical Nurse Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist and Cancer Therapy Assistant.
The team offers a number of services such as tumour site specific health and wellbeing sessions, Take Control Courses, Carers Workshops and Cafe. They also run the Swindon Cancer Buddy Service. They also have a number of online self-help videos.
To access the videos please scan the QR code to browse the video selection via YouTube.
They run one-to-one therapy clinics focusing on:
- Rehabilitation
- Fatigue
- Breathlessness
- Pain
- Anxiety
- Falls
- Activities of Daily Living
- Lymphoedema
- Sleep
- Body Image and cognition
Below you can see the site specific sessions for 2024, these are full days which include lunch and have specialist speakers such as Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. All of these sessions are face to face.
The is a monthly face-to-face Macmillan Take Control session. This is a half-day session, aimed at exploring the key side-effects of cancer treatments and self-management. This course is aimed at helping you to move on and live beyond cancer as best as possible.
There are separate Take Control sessions also run specifically for carers in the Macmillan Time & Space course every 3 months, focusing on self-care and managing anxiety.
The Personalised Care Team in conjunction with Swindon Carers also run a monthly carers café, which is a mixture of drop-in sessions and more structured sessions with guest speakers.
Are you are facing cancer and treatment alone?
You may want to access the cancer buddy service at GWH where you can be paired up with a volunteer that supports you along your treatment pathway. They can offer 1:1 support via the telephone or in-person at GWH. They are present on the Day Therapy Unit where you may receive your treatment, therefore provide companionship and support whilst you receive treatment. The team do their best to pair you with one of the volunteers (who also have had a cancer experience) and training. They try to pair people with similar experiences and therefore there may be a wait until you can be paired with someone. You can request to become a cancer buddy or request to be paired with one of our buddies using the contact details below.
