Labour’s Health Minister Edwina Hart today visited Maggie’s Cancer Centre at Singleton Hospital, Swansea to see first-hand the support on offer to individuals living with cancer.
The Swansea centre is the first Maggie’s Centre in Wales and is open to anyone affected by cancer – patients, families, friends and carers.
It provides practical advice and support to give people the tools they need to cope with the major upheaval cancer can cause. The Centre, which has been running since May 2007 in temporary accommodation provided by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust, will move to a new £1.7million purpose-build facility at the hospital early next year, with the money for the building coming from charitable donations.
Edwina Hart said: ”I am pleased have the opportunity to visit the centre to see what support is on offer to patients and their family and friends at this most difficult time. Almost everyone in Wales will have been touched by cancer or know someone who has. Figures suggest that one in three people in Wales will develop some form of cancer during their lives.
Our efforts are focused on prevention, early detection and access to high-quality treatment and support to reduce the impact of cancer and improve survival rates. Last week, I announced a programme of work for the next three years to further enhance services for cancer patients. The voluntary sector, and centres like this, has a valuable role in supporting and complementing the work of the NHS in providing help and support for people living with cancer.”
Details of the Assembly Government’s Programme to enhance services for cancer patients can be found at: http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/health/news/cancer250708/?lang=en
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