Macmillan Cancer Support Centre
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
Joanna Henwood - Macmillan Welfare Rights Advisor
Laura Adamson - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator
Amanda McMahon - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator
Craig Plumb - Macmillan Information Centre Co-ordinator
Cancer treatment
For more information about cancer treatments please visit the cancer treatments section of our website.
Benefits available
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
| 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 543408 |
| 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
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
- Wakefield Hospice
- Prince of Wales Hospice Pontefract
- Kirkwood Hospice (Kirklees)
- Barnsley Hospice
- Martin House Hospice (children)
- Forget-me-Not (children)
Bereavement Support
- Wakefield and District Bereavement Support Service
- STAR (Wakefield)
- CRUSE
- What to do when someone dies
- Grieving symptoms
Children's Palliative Care
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.
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
Below are a few resources and leaflets, produced by the Trust, for patients who may wish to find out more about our services.
Information for patients who have been referred to hospital on a cancer pathway.pdf[pdf] 218KB
Macmillan information and support centre.pdf[pdf] 160KB
Your cancer journey.pdf[pdf] 153KB
The Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team.pdf [pdf] 212KB
What is Duty of Candour.pdf [pdf] 198KB
Financial support for people affected by cancer.pdf[pdf] 160KB
Making a donation
If you would like to make a donation to help support cancer patients you can donate to our Trust charity.
For more information visit the MY Hospitals Charity website.
You can also donate directly to the national Macmillan team.