Cancer Care

Macmillan Cancer Support Apps

There are two new Apps available to Cancer Patients that are evidence-based therapies and free through Macmillan Cancer Support:

Sleepio App

for poor sleep and insomnia, addresses unique needs with a personalised programme, featuring sessions with step-by-step guidance through evidence-based techniques, available night or day. In a UK clinical trial, 76% of patients experienced improvement in their sleep.

Daylight App

for worry and anxiety, helps people gain control over their anxiety with personalised therapeutic content. It’s available when it’s needed the most, providing you with evidence based techniques to cope in the moment. In a clinical trial, 71% of patients experienced reductions in anxiety.

The Apps can be downloaded from this link: https://www.bighealth.co.uk/lp/macmillan/

The Macmillan Deaf Cancer Support Project

The Macmillan Deaf Cancer Support Project is available to anyone living with cancer in the Deaf community. It also supports their carers, including Deaf people who are supporting a hearing person living with cancer.

You can access the service by contacting DeafCancer@selfhelp.org.uk. Referrals can also be made by healthcare professionals in the same way.

Sue Ryders Bereavement Services

Sue Ryders Bereavement Services – available for all patients, includes information regarding:

  • Online bereavement community
  • Bereavement Information and Grief Advice
  • Online Bereavement Counselling
  • Terminal Illness Information

Website: www.sueryder.org

Cancer Care Nurse

Jacqui Graves is a highly experienced Registered General Nurse with extensive knowledge and skills developed over 36 years across the National Health Service, Charitable and Private Investment Sector. The majority of her career has been supporting people affected by cancer as a Cancer Nurse Specialist in Oxford and working directly for many years for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Jacqui is also a Trustee at Penny Brohn UK, a charity which offers a holistic approach to helping people live well with cancer – The Bristol Whole Life Approach – which gives anyone affected by cancer the practical, emotional and social support they need to improve their quality of life and to manage the fear and uncertainty that a cancer diagnosis may bring.

Jacqui started at the Windrush Medical Practice as a volunteer vaccinator earlier this year, during the Covid-19 Pandemic, and is now employed to deliver our new Cancer Care Review Clinics.

Jacqui Graves Blogs

Live Well Oxfordshire

This is a live Oxfordshire-wide database, which contains local services and activities, a calendar of events. Under ‘key words’ put cancer and a host of options are available:

Website: www.livewell.oxfordshire.gov.uk

Penny Brohn UK - Live Well With Cancer

Cancer impacts your whole life. They’re here to help you find ways to care for your mind, body, emotions, spirit, heart and soul.

Website: www.pennybrohn.org.uk

Compassion In Dying

Contains information regarding end of life care – supporting your choices. Please visit the below website for further information:

Website: www.compassionindying.org.uk

Tell Us Once

Tell Us Once is a service that lets you report a death to most government organisations in one go.

Wesbite: GOV: Tell us Once

Patient Questionnaire for Cancer Care Reviews

Cancer Care Review

With increasing numbers of people surviving their Cancer diagnosis, primary care has an important role in supporting people to live well with and beyond cancer. The Cancer Care Review (CCR) is a conversation between a person and their GP or Practice Nurse about their cancer journey.

For more information, please visit the ‘What is a Cancer Care Review?’ page.

Palliative Care – Planning Ahead

All our lives we prefer to make choices about the way we live, and we make these choices based on what matters most to us. Everyone is different, and their choices are different, too.

If we meet health problems in the future, we will want to make choices about how we are treated. Sometimes there are lots of options and sometimes options are limited, but we will still make our decisions based on what matters most to us.

Sometimes, people don’t feel well enough to choose at the time when important health-care decisions need to be made.

This tool will help to think ahead about some of those choices, so you can decide what matters most to you and consider some of those choices ahead of time – please click the following link: advancecareplanning.org.uk/planning-ahead

Here for Health

Health Promotion Service – Run in Partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support: Living with and beyond cancer – Oxford University Hospitals (ouh.nhs.uk)

Patients and Carers self-refer via email to hereforhealth@ouh.nhs.uk or call on 01865 221429.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan are there to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can, providing physical, financial and emotional support. So whatever cancer throws your way, they’re right there with you.

Cancer information and support – Macmillan Cancer Support

Digital Legacy Association

When someone passes away, your loved ones won’t be able to access your photo’s, messages or close the accounts down on a digital platform.

Further information: Facebook Digital Assets and Digital Legacy Tutorial – Digital Legacy Association.

Social Media Will Template

Social Media Will template – This is free for member of the general public to download, save and print. Once the social medical will has been completed it can be used to help ensure that you end of life and digital legacy wishes are adhered to: Social Media Will – Digital Legacy Association.

The Death Notification Service

The Death Notification Service is a free service which allows you to notify a number of member organisations of a person’s death, at the same time. Their aim is to make the process quick and easy for you to inform them at a time that suits you.

Website: www.deathnotificationservice.co.uk