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2001
- In Merseyside and
Lancashire,
Patient Grants totalling £513,098
were made to 1,502 local people.
Behind
each grant lies an individual story of anxiety and financial need:
The
Patient Grants Team received a Christmas card from a cancer clinic which
sums up how patient grants make a real difference: "I
would just like to say thank you for all the help you have given me,
towards making my patients lives more comfortable or easier through the
grants they have received. I wish you could see their faces and relief
when a problem is eased, or a worrying bill paid, and the heating can be
turned up or on again."
Across
the country just under £5 million in grants was given to help over 16,000
people “living with cancer”.
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New
Chemotherapy Centre opened in Halton, Merseyside, on 23 July, and largely
funded by an appeal in that area. This unit, as with all Macmillan units,
is designed to provide a high quality, supportive environment which
reflects an atmosphere of calm and safety for cancer patients.
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Macmillan's
first Pharmacist has been appointed who is based in Macclesfield. This is
a new and innovative post. Julie will make sure that patients get the pain
relief drugs etc they need, in conjunction with their cancer treatment,
working between hospitals and hospices.
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