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Thank you so much! 2008 was another great year in Wiltshire for Macmillan Cancer Support
We are constantly delighted by the generosity of the local people and businesses. There are many ways in which you raise money for Macmillan, including joining in with UK-wide events such as the World's Biggest Coffee Morning and the Big Sports Day for schools; running marathons for Macmillan; taking on personal challenges such as cycling across Mexico or trekking the Inca trail. You could undertake street collections and organise local events such as fashion shows, nearly-new sales, head shaves, sponsored slims, dog shows and many more!
Macmillan Cancer Support works in partnership with the NHS in Wiltshire to improve cancer treatment and care given to people with cancer and their families. In the last five years Macmillan has funded the following posts in Wiltshire:
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Seven Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists based at the new Great Western Hospital.
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Macmillan has agreed funding for a Macmillan Clinical Psychologist to work between the Great Western Hospital and The Prospect Hospice in Wroughton. The recruitment process continues as to date we have not recruited into the post.
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Funding the ongoing training of Macmillan medical staff to ensure that they are up to date with the latest developments in cancer treatment and care
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A social worker.
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Welfare Benefits Adviser based at the Citizen's Advice Bureau in Swindon.
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Welfare Benefits Adviser based at the Citizens Advice bureau in Salisbury.
In the last two years we have given grants totalling £116,000 to 172 people living with cancer in Wiltshire, who are experiencing financial difficulty as a result of their cancer. The grants are used to pay for things as diverse as clothing, transport, heating and respite breaks.
In West Wiltshire, July 2004 saw the opening of the new Cancer Information and Support Service situated within the Warminster Library. Macmillan Cancer Support worked in partnership with the Wiltshire County Council and the West Wiltshire Primary Care Trust to provide a centre for anyone with concerns about cancer and during the past four years it has provided help to more than 1,000 people. The three agencies would now like to extend cancer support services to other areas of Wiltshire by building on the Warminster model. From June 2008 the centre has not been staffed by a Cancer Information Manager.
However library staff continue to provide a special collection of books and leaflets and work with the charity Positive Action on Cancer to provides counselling services. The service opened in 2004 with Macmillan Cancer Support agreeing to fund the Cancer Information Manager's post for four years and the refurbishment of the Centre which Wiltshire County Council provides in the library. our funding model is to support the development of a service or post usually for the first three years. Additionally,Macmillan continue to work with the Primary care trust and Wiltshire County Council to look at potential new ways that we can deliver information about cancer top those who need it.
With more people being diagnosed with cancer every year, the need for Macmillan's services is increasing in Wiltshire. Many of us will be diagnosed with cancer. Many more of us will have close friends and relatives who will get cancer. Improvements in diagnosis and medicine, as well as improvement in care pioneered by Macmillan, mean that many more people are living with cancer and living longer. Your continued support helps us to help them.
In Wiltshire, we continue to climb mountains; we make coffee; we give our time and we work together. We are committed to improving the lives of people affected by cancer. We are committed to involving everyone we can. We are committed to making a stronger, bolder, more inclusive Macmillan. We are all Macmillan, join us.