Tuesday 15 July 2008
The Mayor and Mayoress visited the Ark again on Tuesday to meet some of the Macmillan Nurses.
As treatments improve, more and more people are living with cancer in their daily lives. This means they need more than medical help, they also need practical, emotional and financial support.
The Macmillan Nurses are not only nurses in the true sense of the word but are so much more. They are a source of support, helping with all the things that people affected by cancer want and need. It is not only patients who live with cancer, so they also help carers, families and communities. They guide people through the system, supporting them every step of the way. They fund nurses and other specialist health care professionals and build cancer care centres. But they give so much more than medical help.
People need practical support at home, so they provide anything from some precious time off for a carer, to a lift to hospital. People need emotional support, so they listen, advise and share information though their CancerLine, website, support groups and trained professionals. People need financial help to cope with the extra costs cancer can bring, so they give benefits advice, and grants for anything from heating bills to travel costs. Together they listen, they learn, they act to help people live with cancer.
Click here to read about the Macmillan rally held at the Ark back in April.