Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support hosted a Cancer Health and Wellbeing Event, held at Staines Community Centre. This event was an opportunity to provide education and support sessions to patients and their families living with and beyond cancer, to help patients live as healthily and actively as possible during and after cancer treatment.
Speakers from both ASPH and Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust gave their time and expertise to talk about managing the side effects of cancer treatment, managing emotional wellbeing and fatigue, the importance eating well and the impact on survivorship by being active.
Macmillan and a selection of local charities and non-profit organisations from the surrounding districts attended to champion and share their unique purpose of providing additional support services in the community. Patients had an opportunity to visits their stalls and take away information.
Feedback from the event was positive. The aim of the event was to empower people affected by cancer to be confident to reach out and be their own health advocate, with an overall message that each person is not alone, they are supported through their treatment and beyond.
