Mission Statement
Aims
To empower its users with a better knowledge and understanding of their illness so they can make more informed choices about their treatment and future.
To assist its users through education, recreation and information, to make healthier choices and to encourage them to take responsibility for their own recovery and future well-being.
To help its users to come to terms with their diagnosis in a positive way and assist them to move on.
To promote patient participation within our Health Service.
Objectives
- No one should suffer in silence or feel isolated
- Building self-confidence
- Regain a sense of belonging
- Learning to laugh again
- the impact cancer has on families
- the fears of dying, suffering and pain
- the life-changing experience that cancer brings to mind, body and spirit
- what it’s really like to live with cancer
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