Guest Speaker: Rachel King, Breast Care Nurse Practitioner at the Worcestershire Breast Unit Tips, advice, how to check your breasts, Q&A
When and where
Date and time
Thu, 20 October 2022, 10:00 – 13:00 BST
Location
WR14 3SZ: Malvern Hills Science Park Geraldine Road Malvern WR14 3SZ
Currently 800 women and 7 men a year are diagnosed with breast cancer in Worcestershire. This statistic makes the work of our fabulous Breast Unit ever more important and means that fundraising done by the Worcestershire Breast Unit Haven charity is absolutely vital.
The Worcestershire Breast Unit is recognised by clinicians as one of the leading breast units in the UK, providing clinical services and assistance over and above those that the NHS can fund or offer. Since the Worcestershire Breast Unit opened its doors five years ago, it has seen between 10,000-12,000 women displaying symptoms of breast cancer and has supported them with assessments and care through diagnosis and treatment.
The charity’s support services now include practical and physical activities to assist in living with breast cancer and recovery. Since the Pandemic, the Worcestershire Breast Unit Haven charity has significantly expanded its range of support services and activities on offer for patients of the Unit. The charity’s support group now supports over 80 women accessing it on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, meeting face to face regularly with clinical input as requested. In addition, the charity offers Pink Ribbon Pilates classes, mindfulness courses, nutritional advice, 5k Your Way Worcester, a Nordic walking group, Look Good Feel Better sessions, crafting and gardening groups. The charity is seeking to add to these with the imminent re-introduction of the complementary therapies which had to be halted due to the Pandemic. These have many extensive emotional and physical benefits and are usually treatments that the patient would not be able to self-fund and are not funded by the NHS. Included in these can be lymphatic massage, acupuncture, scar tissue massage, and reflexology.
The charity also works very closely with the NHS Breast Teams to ensure we can provide clinical services and assistance over and above what the NHS can provide. This has included funding extra equipment (such as a portable screening machine), a Metastatic Nurse (to be named a Kate Nurse in memory and celebration of the incredible Kate Butler), mastectomy bras, nipple tattooing and support literature (currently the ‘Mummy found a Lump’ leaflet) for children of patients – and so much more.
Worcestershire Breast Unit Haven
PO Box 933
WORCESTER
WR4 4GN
