Cancer (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)
Community assets and services
- Cancer Connections,
- a better u ,
- Better U Selfcare programme,
- Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies,
- Think Pharmacy First - provided by Pharmacists across South Tyneside,
- Integrated community teams / Social Navigators (housebound patients)
- 3rd sector services and advice are available - visit Wellbeing info
- Primary Care support including 2 week wait referrals so that suspected cancer can be identified as early as possible. GPs make these referrals following an appointment where they suspect the symptoms of a patient may be caused by cancer.
- Cancer site specific treatment services, some of these may be based outside of South Tyneside and are generally delivered at NHS Hospitals.