Cultural barriers and a lack of awareness about “what cancer is”?, in communities can often lead to late diagnosis and poorer survival rates. We will look to address these issues through a proactive community engagement by holding regular sessions and awareness talks.

The key main areas that we will look at are;

• Health and Wellbeing

• Cancer Prevention and Early Diagnosis

• Cancer Screening Programmes

• Signs and Symptoms

• Living well and beyond Cancer

We will be looking at visiting communities soon with a range of awareness sessions and practical workshops, remember your feedback is key! We want to build these sessions around what you want and allow you to have a voice. We are happy to come to already established groups so just let us know what the dates and times are.

Please get in contact with either Kassandra.styche@nhs.net or lesley.fellows@nhs.net to arrange this.

Are you interested in becoming a Community Cancer Champion? This training will aim to improve early diagnosis of cancer, addressing some of the health inequalities. Talking helps breakdown fear and barriers. This training program is designed in conjunction with Cancer Research UK, and will give participants the knowledge and confidence to have conversations in their community about cancer prevention, myth busting and early diagnosis.

This training will take place over three sessions via Microsoft Teams and all sessions must be completed to finish the course.

If you are interested on putting your name down for an upcoming place on the next cohort, then please contact Kassandra.styche@nhs.net