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CANCER sufferers and other patients will get psychological support at Oxford hospitals through a project believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.
A full-time psychiatrist and three mental health nurses are expected to be hired by the autumn to lead the scheme.
They will work with patients to offer them specialist support alongside their treatment, rather than having to go to separate services.
The psychiatrist will split their time between cancer patients and other divisions, with £200,000 a year budgeted for cancer patients.
Eynsham cancer campaigner Clive Stone, 66, who won a 2007 battle to get a drug for his kidney cancer on the NHS, welcomed the news.
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/y..._project_to_offer_support_to_cancer_patients/
A full-time psychiatrist and three mental health nurses are expected to be hired by the autumn to lead the scheme.
They will work with patients to offer them specialist support alongside their treatment, rather than having to go to separate services.
The psychiatrist will split their time between cancer patients and other divisions, with £200,000 a year budgeted for cancer patients.
Eynsham cancer campaigner Clive Stone, 66, who won a 2007 battle to get a drug for his kidney cancer on the NHS, welcomed the news.
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/y..._project_to_offer_support_to_cancer_patients/