Information and Support
Here at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust we have a variety of resources to offer you information and support during and after your cancer journey.
Please see below or navigate to any of the tabs on the right for further information on the services we offer.
Maggie's Centre Leeds
Maggie’s is at St James’s University Hospital, opposite the Bexley wing. They are open Monday –Friday, 9am –5pm. No referral necessary – for further information please click here.
Cancer Quality of Life Survey
The Cancer Quality of Life Survey is a national survey run by NHS England iinviting people to complete the survey 18 months after a cancer diagnosis.
The aim of the survey is to find out how quality of life may have changed for people diagnosed with cancer; where care is working well or not and if any new services are needed.
Supportive conversations with your health professional
West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance working with healthcare professionals and people who have lived experience, has developed a new resource to help ensure every cancer patient feels supported, informed, and empowered.
The new resource is aimed at simplyfing the language and jargon around the terms Cancer Care Review (CCR) and Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA), to ensure patients understand that these are supportive conversations to address their needs; that they also feel empowered to recognise when they have had the opportunity to take part in these reviews and assessments, and also feel able to ask for them proactively.
For more information please visit the Cancer Alliance website or click here for the link
Chemotherapy Helpline
Chemotherapy
Our chemotherapy team is based on both hospitals at the Greenlea unit ward 7 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and the Macmillan unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital.
Please click here for further information on the chemotherapy service.
Macmillan Information and support
The Macmillan Information and Support Service is based on the Greenlea Oncology Unit at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and at the Jayne Garforth Macmillan Unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital.
Our support is tailored to the individual needs of the patient/carer, so whatever cancer throws your way, we aim to be right there with you. If we don’t know the answer to your questions, we will find out or refer you on to someone else who can help you.
Please click here to navigate to the main Macmillan Information and support page.
First Steps
First Steps information and support session runs every month at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on the first Monday of the month.
Click here or navigate to the tab on the right for further information.
Health and Wellbeing
Our Health and Wellbeing programme is specifically designed for patients who have completed or at the end of their cancer treatment.
Please navigate to the tab on the right or click the here for further information.
Thinking Ahead programme
Thinking Ahead courses and support group sessions for anyone living with incurable cancer, please click the image for further information or click the tab on the right.
Prehabilitation
This is a process of enhancing function to improve your ability to withstand forthcoming treatment and improve outcomes. The project at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is to support patients who are newly diagnosed with cancer, to engage in exercise, nutritional screening and have improved emotional well-being.
For further information on the benefits of prehabilitation please click here.
Macmillan/CHFT prehabilitation Project annual reports
Please click the links below to access any of the reports
Annual Report for 2019-2020 or click here to view the executive summary.
