Patient Services

Background

In Wales 1 in 3 people will develop cancer during their lifetime and statistics indicate that cancer rates in Wales are higher than those for the rest of the UK. This presents those in cancer care services with an enormous challenge. 

Cancer Care Cymru was established to train and fund specialist nurses and other staff to deliver sustained treatment and support alongside those given by the NHS. Cancer Care Cymru's staff are therefore uniquely placed to complement and supplement the service provided to cancer patients by the NHS.

The ethos of the charity is to care for people as well as their disease which accounts for its consistently innovative approach to enhancing patient care through the services the charity delivers.

Our Core Service

Cancer Care Cymru staff provide continuity of care through diagnosis and treatments at all stages of the disease. They mediate and help patients to cope with the knowledge of their medical situation, the treatments, the limitations of what they can do, the impact on their families as well as the fear and uncertainty that this often brings.

The staff recognise the worth of each individual patient and do their utmost to defend patients against the inevitable tendency of organisations to process people in a machine like way. With increasing numbers of people being diagnosed the innovative services provided by Cancer Care Cymru are the only way in which the NHS can hope to continue to provide effective care for cancer patients and their families.

Nurse Led Services