In partnership with the national charity Macmillan Cancer Support, the Macmillan Living Well Service will offer a wide range of services from the recently completed Living Well Centre at Blythe House.

Cancer patients will be warmly welcomed by skilled and experienced healthcare professionals – and families and carers will have access to a range of physical and psychological services and support in its calm and relaxed environment.

Anne Cawthorn, Macmillan Living Well Specialist Practitioner, said: "The new service offers a flexible approach which aims to meet the needs of people who are coping with treatments, balancing work and family commitments, whilst trying to maintain their own well-being.

"We see this service as being a continuation of the existing services offered at Blythe House."

The service can be accessed by patients or professional referral – or just by informal drop-in at the centre on Tuesdays only between 10am and 4pm.

On referral, an appointment will be given to attend an initial assessment with a specialist nurse experienced in cancer rehabilitation.

The aim of assessment is to address any concerns and create an individual programme from the services available which include:

• Nurse Assessment and ongoing key worker support

•Specialist Consultant and Palliative Medicine Clinic

• Physiotherapy

• Information about disease and treatments

• Social and Welfare Rights support

• Spiritual and religious support

• Counselling for adjustment, relationship and body image

• Family therapy and young people's counselling

•Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy for anxiety, panic, phobias and depression

•Complementary therapies including aromatherapy, massage, reflexology and Reiki healing

• 12 week rolling educational programme

• Headstart

• Groups including a Newly Diagnosed Group, Art and Creative Therapy Group, Complementary Therapy and Mindfulness Meditation Groups.

For more information about the services available, make an appointment, find out the times of the drop-in groups or just have an informal chat, contact: Anne Cawthorn – Macmillan Living Well Specialist Practitioner or Dot Hughes – Macmillan Living Well Support Worker at The Living Well Centre, Blythe House Hospice, Eccles Fold Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, SK23 9TJ. Telephone 01298 816994 or 01298 815388 or e-mail anne.cawthorn@blythehouse.nhs.uk or dot.hughes@blythehouse.nhs.uk