The health and wellbeing of patients is crucial to the future survivorship and improved outcomes for cancer patients. The ‘Achieving World Class Outcomes – A strategy for England 2015- 2020’ looks at how the NHS can deliver care for people affected by cancer by a radical change in focus with an emphasis on early diagnosis and addressing the needs of those ‘living with and Beyond cancer’.
The strategy sets out a vision for what cancer patients should expect from the health service and how health economies can meet the demands of the expected increased numbers of new cancers and the necessity to improve survival rates. One of the Key recommendations was implementation of the recovery package which emphasises the health and wellbeing agenda.
Events
Health and Wellbeing Events
Health and Wellbeing Clinics are education events to give the person affected by cancer all the information they need to enable rehabilitation and self management. This may include the opportunity for advice about work or finance, physical activity and local services that offer help and support for people living with a long term condition.
Health and Wellbeing Events aimed to highlight the support available in Wirral for people affected by cancer are held regularly by WUTH.
The cancer health and wellbeing event feature short talks from health care professionals on topics such as coping with the emotional effects of cancer, consequences of treatment, physical activity and nutrition.