Cancer Care Services in North West London

The service provides for service users, carers, friends and family, affected by cancer. The service provides/promotes: • Assistance/help to residents of BAME background develop more effective ways of coping with the impact that cancer has on their lives. Ensuring a culturally-sensitive personalised approach to care. • Supportive drop-in service at the heart of the community, reaching out to the Inclusion Health Groups (formerly refers to "hard to reach" groups) as well as to the communities who identifies themselves as Caribbean, African, Irish, Asians, Chinese and of other Mixed heritage. • Health and social inclusion and tackles the root causes of cancer by organising open health forums on cancer education in the community and locating user friendly non-clinical information as well as raising awareness of risk factors of cancer and healthy living. • Outreach services to the community by using staff and volunteers to visit service users in their homes, hospitals, and hospices, to assess their needs if they are not able to come to the drop-in centres / session. • Organises talks on community radio stations to raise cancer awareness within the community.