Macmillan Cancer Support Centre

Macmillan Information Pod

The Macmillan Information Pod is located on Level D at Pinderfields Hospital. Our team can offer advice, information and support to anyone affected by cancer.

We are open Monday to Friday from 8am-4pm.

You can call the team on 01924 546072. You can also email the team at the Macmillan Information Pod

Additionally, The Rosewood Centre at Dewsbury is now open Monday to Friday from 8am-4pm. The address and contact details are show below.

The Rosewood Centre
Dewsbury and District Hospital
Halifax Road
Dewsbury
WF13 4HS

Telephone: 01924 512204
Email: midyorks.macmillan.infocentre@nhs.net

The Macmillan website also has a huge amount of information about specific cancers, their treatment, advice about coping with cancer and details of other services they offer.

Cancer advice, information and support

View the sections below to find out more about the different areas of cancer advice, information and support.

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Please find the team members of the Macmillan Cancer Support Centre below.

Kimberley Priestley - Macmillan Information and Support Service Manager

Kimberley Priestley

Joanna Henwood - Macmillan Welfare Rights Advisor

Joanna Henwood

Laura Adamson - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator

Laura Adamson

Amanda McMahon - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator

Amanda McMahon

Craig Plumb - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator

Craig Plumb

Cancer treatment

For more information about cancer treatments please visit the cancer treatments section of our website.

Benefits available

Need benefits advice? We're here There are lots of benefits that can help after a cancer diagnosis, but the system can be confusing. The benefits you are entitled to depend on many factors, such as your age, income and where you live.

We advise you to contact staff in the Macmillan Information Pod who can help you with this.

You can send them an email or view the top of this page for additional contact details.

If you would like to complete your own benefits assessment you can use one of the following links:

Cancer nursing teams

Contact details for the cancer nursing teams
Team	Contact number
Acute Oncology	01422 222 999
Breast	01924 542223
Chemotherapy Day Unit (Pinderfields)	01924 541142
Chemotherapy Day Unit (Pontefract)	01924 747134
Chemotherapy Day Unit (Dewsbury)	01924 512244
Gynaecology	01924 543091
Haematology Senior Charge Nurse	01924 542241
Haematology Secretaries	01924 543834
Head and neck	01924 542556 / 542250
Lower GI	01924 542277
Lung	01924 543977 / 543818
Skin	01924 212237 / 212236
Upper GI	01924 543415 (no answer machine; Advice line 07787105193 (answer machine available)
Urology	01924 542279

Cancer support groups

Breast

MY Breast Cancer Support
Second Thursday of every month, 10am-12pm
The Cluntergate Centre, Horbury
Tel: Sara 07842 140381 or Alison 07939 702262

Pontefract Breast Group
First Thursday of every month, 10am-12pm
Conservative Club, Market Place, Pontefract
Tel: Rachel 07891 908641

Breast of Friends
Second Thursday of every month, 7.30pm-9pm
Pinderfields Trust HQ
Tel: 07976 412562 or 07866 382631

Upper GI

Panpals Leeds (pancreatic)
panpalsyorks@yahoo.co.uk

Colorectal and urology

Bowel and Urology Group
Third Thursday of every month, 2pm
Brook House Club, 221 Barnsley Road, Sandal, Wakefield, WF1 5NU
Tel: John 07974 657146

Myeloma

The Leeds Myeloma Support
Last Friday of the month, 1.30pm
Please phone for venue: 0113 2520097

Palliative Care

Wakefield Hospice Day Therapy
Drop in: Tuesday 9.15am-3.30pm, Wednesday 1pm-7pm
Tel: 01924 331400

The Rosewood Centre
Dewsbury and District Hospital
Tel: 01924 512039

The Prince of Wales Hospice Day Therapy
Various locations
Tel: 01977 708868

Kirkwood Hospice Family Care Team
Tel: 01484 557908

Carers support

Get the support you need If you're a carer for someone with cancer and you need support then there are local groups that can help.

In Wakefield you can contact Carers Wakefield or visit their Facebook page.

In Kirklees you can contact Carers Count or visit their Facebook page.

Emotional support

Need to speak to someone?

Email us with your number and we will call you back.

The following organisations can also provide you with emotional support:

Wellwoman Wakefield
Turning Point
Macmillan
Kirkless IAPT Service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies)

Referral to psychology

Visit the cancer and palliative care psychology service page for more information.

The service is available to any adult who:

Resides within the Mid Yorkshire Trust's geographical region.
Has a diagnosis of cancer or a palliative condition.
Is under the care of a medical consultant or specialist palliative care team within one of the Mid Yorkshire hospitals.

Any healthcare professional within the Trust can make a referral. If you feel you need to access the service please discuss this with your doctor, nurse or other professional involved in your care.

In an emergency

If you need urgent help and support, you can phone the Samaritans on 116 123 or visit their website.

End of life care

Hospices

Bereavement Support

Children's Palliative Care

Locala (North Kirklees)

Mid Yorkshire adult palliative care service and support

Exercise

It's important for everyone to eat healthy and stay active, whether you have a cancer diagnosis or not, and it can often help prevent the onset of cancer and other illnesses.

You may be referred to Kirklees Active Leisure.

Wakefield Council also provides lots of opportunities for you to get more involved in sport and exercise.

The Active Together exercise programme has been developed by world-leading academics and clinicians at Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), offering free fitness, nutrition and wellbeing support to people following a cancer diagnosis. You can view useful videos developed by the programme below:

To discuss a referral to any of the exercise programmes, please speak to your cancer nurse specialist who will advise you which one is available in your area.

Prehabilitation

Macmillan have collaborated with Bristol Myers Squibb and people living with cancer to produce six videos covering prehabilitation. Prehabilitation helps people living with cancer prepare their body and mind for treatment. It can include areas like physical activity, healthy eating, mental health, reducing alcohol and stopping smoking.

Research has shown prehabilitation can benefit health and emotional wellbeing by lowering anxiety, improving fitness and reducing side effects of treatment

You can view the videos here: Prehabilitation videos for people living with cancer

General support

There are lots of other organisations which can provide support for anyone living with cancer.

Age UK

Services available locally

Citizens Advice

Benefits
Debt
Family
Housing
Law and courts
Health

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Benefits
State pension
Pension services

Relate

Marriage/relationships
Sex life
Family life
Separation/divorce
Children and young people

Practical support

We have provided links to the places where you can go to get local, practical support when living with cancer.

Additional services (district nurse/dietitian/occupational therapist)

Volunteering

Join the Mid Yorkshire Macmillan Service to give people with cancer a place to come for support.

Are you empathetic with good listening skills? Then we would love you to join our team as an Information and Support Centre Volunteer or Ward Befriender at Pinderfields Hospital.

The roles include meeting and greeting patients and visitors, providing a listening ear, information booklets and general admin duties such as stock checks. By sharing your skills and time, you’ll use and develop your communication and customer service skills and meet new people as part of a friendly team that makes a difference. Together, we can be right there for people with cancer. If you would like to be part of our volunteer team, apply to volunteer today!

The Macmillan Centre is based on Level D in Pinderfields Hospital and you can call on 01924 546072 for an informal chat about the roles. Following this, you will be invited to visit the centre and meet with a staff member before progressing your application through the Voluntary Services team.

Macmillan volunteer role profile [pdf] 126KB

Ward Befriender role profile [pdf] 96KB

Find out more information about the Voluntary Services team at Mid Yorks

LGBTQ+

Transgender and non-binary people and cancer

Macmillan Cancer Support have put together some information for transgender (trans) and non-binary people who may have questions about cancer risk, symptoms, screening and treatment, as well as what to expect from your healthcare team.

Find out more about transgender and non-binary people and cancer

Support with travel

Blue badge application

If you would like some support from our team to apply for a blue badge please email us

You can also apply yourself by visiting the Gov.UK website.

Travel insurance

We can provide advice - please email us

You can also find useful information on the Macmillan website.

Travelling to our hospitals

For more information about travelling to our hospitals please visit the patients and visitors section of our website.

Useful information from the hospital

Need information about cancer? Below are a few resources and leaflets, produced by the Trust, for patients who may wish to find out more about our services.