Cancer (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)

Community assets and services

  • Cancer Connections,
  • a better u ,
  • Better U Selfcare programme,
  • Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies,
  • Think Pharmacy First - provided by Pharmacists across South Tyneside,
  • Integrated community teams / Social Navigators (housebound patients)
  • 3rd sector services and advice are available - visit Wellbeing info
  • Primary Care support including 2 week wait referrals so that suspected cancer can be identified as early as possible. GPs make these referrals following an appointment where they suspect the symptoms of a patient may be caused by cancer.
  • Cancer site specific treatment services, some of these may be based outside of South Tyneside and are generally delivered at NHS Hospitals.
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