Your guide to cancer services in the Three Counties area We’re here for you

Cancer is the toughest fight most of us will ever face. But you don’t have to go through it alone. The Macmillan team is in your corner. We are the nurses helping you through treatment. The experts on the end of the phone who can answer your questions. The advisers telling you which benefits you’re entitled to. We are Macmillan Cancer Support and we’ll be with you every step of the way.

High-quality information Financial support and support The costs of cancer can stack up, Visit one of our many information and money worries are the last and support centres in your area thing you need when you’re facing for clear information about cancer the toughest fight of your life. But and face-to-face support. Our we can help with a wide range of team of trained staff and volunteers financial issues. We can let you are there to talk about your issues know how to apply for a Macmillan and concerns. Grant. We can help you understand which benefits you’re entitled to. We You’ll find details of the cancer can even offer you straightforward information and support centres financial guidance over the phone in the Three Counties area on on matters including pensions, pages 4 to 5. mortgages, insurance and savings.

You’ll find details of financial support services in the Three Counties area on page 6.

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Cancer information Macmillan Cancer Information Other cancer information FOCUS Cancer Information and and support centres and Support Unit (Worcester) and support services Support Centre () Main Reception, Cheltenham General Hospital, Services developed in Royal Hospital, The Haven () Sandford Road, Cheltenham, partnership with Macmillan Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, 37 Owen Street, Hereford HR1 2JB GL53 7AN Worcestershire WR5 1DD Macmillan Cancer Information 01432 361061 0845 422 4414 and Support Service (Hereford) 01905 733837 www.thehaven.org.uk Monday–Friday, 8.30am–4.30pm The Macmillan Renton Unit, Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm The County Hospital, FOCUS offers a range of cancer Hereford HR1 2ER We are staffed by a health The Haven provides support, information and support, including professional and a team of trained therapies and information to people complementary therapies, benefits 01432 355444 extension 5459 volunteers. Drop in for cancer affected by breast cancer. Specialist advice and Look Good…Feel Better Monday–Friday, 9.30am–4.30pm information and support, including nurses, experts in nutrition, exercise, skin care and make-up workshops benefits advice and counselling. emotional support, financial support for women living with cancer. We provide information, support and complementary therapies offer There’s a wig clinic on Tuesdays and and practical advice to anyone individual programmes of care. They they also sell a range of headwear. affected by cancer. Our services can help you cope with the physical include confidential one-to-one and emotional side effects of breast support, information on all aspects cancer and its treatment. of living with cancer and treatments, and guided internet access. We also offer benefits advice on Tuesday mornings and a wig clinic on Friday mornings (both by appointment).

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Financial support services Worcestershire Macmillan You don’t have to go through cancer You can also access our online Citizens Advice alone. Whether you want support community. It’s a place where Forest of Dean CAB/Macmillan The Old Glove Factory, and information or you’d just like thousands of people affected by Welfare Benefits Advice Service 13A Lowesmoor, Worcester, to talk, our team of cancer support cancer go to share their stories and Forest of Dean Citizens Advice Worcestershire WR1 2RS specialists at the Macmillan Support get vital support. Five minutes after Bureau, Forest Road Centre, Line are only a phone call away. logging on, you can be chatting Forest Road, Cinderford, 01905 725946 From answering questions about to someone who’s going through Gloucestershire GL14 2NR www.cabwhabac.org.uk cancer types and treatments to the same things as you. Visit us at Monday–Friday, 9.30am–4.30pm helping you find out what benefits community.macmillan.org.uk 01594 823937 extension 203 you’re entitled to, they’re here to www.forestofdeancab.co.uk Our confidential advice service is for talk about whatever’s on your mind. Monday–Friday, 9am–4pm people living with cancer and their Call them on 0808 808 00 00 carers. We can advise on a range of any time from Monday to Friday, Our confidential service is for issues including benefits, debt and 9am–8pm. It’s free, even from people affected by cancer living in employment. We’ll also help you mobile phones. the Forest of Dean. We can advise complete forms and appeal benefits you on the support you may be decisions. Come and see us in our What’s more, our website is entitled to if you cannot work due office or we can visit you at home or packed with high-quality cancer to illness or treatment. We’ll help in hospital. information that covers everything with benefits claims, form filling, from symptoms and screening to appeals and grant applications, and treatment types and sources of we can refer you to other services Support on the high street health. All information is written you may need. and reviewed by specialists. We’ve For more information about sources also worked closely with people Macmillan/ Hereford CAB of cancer support, pop into your affected by cancer to develop our Welfare Benefits Advice Service local Boots store or to find your booklets, online courses and face- Citizens Advice nearest Boots visit boots.com. to-face training. To find out more, Bureau, 8 St Owen Street, Hereford, head to macmillan.org.uk or call Herefordshire HR1 2PJ 0808 808 00 00.

01432 377587 Monday–Thursday, 9am–4.30pm

We provide a confidential benefits advice service to people living with cancer, their families and carers.

6 7 We’re here for everyone affected by cancer, whatever you need. For support every step of the way, call the Macmillan Support Line free on 0808 808 00 00.

And, when the time is right, you can join our team. Whether you hold a coffee morning, make a donation or help us campaign for change, you can make a vital difference. Call us today on 0300 1000 200, and help make sure millions of people don’t face cancer alone.

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