FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02396
- Request Date
- April 30, 2018
- Subject
- Support For Cancer Patients
- Description
- Does your Trust offer a Health and Wellbeing event accessible to all breast cancer patients at the end of hospital-based treatment?
(A Health and Wellbeing event is defined as a group education and support event which helps people to manage their physical and psychological health after a cancer diagnosis.) - If the Trust does offer a Health and Wellbeing event for breast cancer patients, are these events:
A. solely for people with breast cancer or
B. for people with all types of cancer - For breast cancer patients who have completed their hospital-based treatment, do the nurses in the breast care unit routinely make direct referrals, where appropriate, to the following?
(By ‘direct referral’ we mean gaining consent from a patient to pass on their details to a support service or arranging for someone from the service to contact the patient)- Services provided by charities
- Support services provided by charities that support people with cancer
- Support services provided by charities that support people with breast cancer only
- NHS Services
- Counselling / psychology services within the NHS
- Physiotherapy services within the NHS
- Fertility services within the NHS
- Lymphoedema services within the NHS
- Other support services – please specify below
- Services provided by charities
- If you do not refer to some/any of the services in question 3, is this due to any of the reasons below? Please indicate all that apply.
- Support services provided by charities that support people with cancer
- Service not available (yes/no)
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Service is unsuitable for breast cancer patients (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not allow time for referrals (yes/no)
- Other (please give details)
- Support services provided by charities that support people with breast cancer only
- Service not available Yes
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not allow time for referrals (yes/no)
- Other (please give details)
- Counselling / psychology services within the NHS
- Service not available (yes/no)
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not
- Physiotherapy services within the NHS
- Service not available (yes/no)
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not allow time for referrals (yes/no)
- Other (please give details)
- Fertility services within the NHS
- Service not available (yes/no)
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not allow time for referrals (yes/no)
- Other (please give details) Consultant only referral if needed.
- Lymphoedema services within the NHS
- Service not available (yes/no)
- Unaware of service (yes/no)
- Service is oversubscribed (yes/no)
- Patient is informed of the service but a direct referral is not made (yes/no)
- Workload capacity does not allow time for referrals (yes/no)
- Other (please give details)
- Support services provided by charities that support people with cancer
- Does your Trust offer a Health and Wellbeing event accessible to all breast cancer patients at the end of hospital-based treatment?
- Response
- Yes
- for people with all types of cancer
- :-
- :-
- Yes
- No
- :-
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- Yes, Prosthesis fitting service, family history service, Gym.
- :-