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Macmillan Improving The Cancer Journey - East Dumbartonshire

Improving the cancer journey is a service available to all cancer patients within the East Dunbartonshire Council area.

Cancer doesn't just affect your physical wellbeing: it impacts upon every aspect of your life.

We want to ensure everyone in East Dunbartonshire who has been diagnosed with cancer can easily access all the support they need after diagnosis, as soon as they need it, to enable them to live as well and as independently as possible.

We have joined forces with Macmillan Cancer Support to help people across East Dunbartonshire who have been diagnosed with cancer.

Our Improving the Cancer Journey (ICJ) service helps people to get the support they need - whether that's physical, emotional, practical, medical or financial. The service is a partnership between East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.

How we can help

Once an individual gets in touch we will arrange for them to meet with a dedicated Macmillan Cancer Wellbeing Practitioner who will help them complete a Holistic Needs Assessment, a tool used to make sure the individual's needs and concerns are identified. The Macmillan Wellbeing Practitioner will work with the individual to agree the best kind of support they and their family want, putting in place a personalised care plan.

How can the Service help me

This service is about working together to help people with cancer live life as fully as they can.

When you contact us, we will work with you to determine the right kind of help and support you need.  You will be assigned a Wellbeing Practitioner who will meet with you to discuss your needs and help you access tailored information and support.  You can talk to us about how you feel, get help with money and housing worries, emotional support or help at home, whatever matters to you.

Holistic Needs Assessment

To find out exactly what your needs are, your Wellbeing Practitioner will carry out a HNA.

Going through this type of assessment will help you to recognise what is troubling you most and will help to make a plan that's unique to you.

In the assessment, you will be asked a simple set of questions. You will also be asked to rate how severe your concerns are. This will give your Wellbeing Practitioner an indication of what should be dealt with first. 

You and your Wellbeing Practitioner will then work together to develop a care plan. From there, you can explore what resources, help and support are available.

The care plan may include things like ideas to help you manage emotional, physical or practical worries. It will also include contact details for organisations or services that could help with your concerns, such as the Macmillan benefits team or a dietician.

Your Wellbeing Practitioner will write down the actions you agree on and you will be able to take a copy of this plan away with you.

Where can we meet

The service can provide support on the following platforms:

  • Face-to-face in the local community
  • Over the telephone
  • Online via video call

ICJ Business Support Officer

Health Improvement Team

East Dunbartonshire HSCP

10 Saramago Street

Kirkintilloch

G66 3BF

0141 232 8256

eastdunicj@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

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