Maggies Cancer Care Centre, City Hospital, Nottingham. No2
Maggies Centres are a place which offers those involved with cancer, be they a patient, family, friends or others can be offered emotional, social and practical support.
They are staffed by professionals, well skilled in cancer treatment and care, where those concerned can be offered practical advice and a meeting place for others who are involved in some way.
The first centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996 and there are now over 20 centres in the UK and abroad, in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Barcelona. They also have an online counselling and advice All the centres are individually designed by internationally well known architects and are designed to be friendly and welcoming places. They are places where people can just drop in with tea and coffee making facilities and comfy seats to relax in and meet others.
The name comes from Maggie Keswick Jencks who had advanced cancer and who died in 1995. She was appalled by the services and support offered in some places to those with cancer and she used her knowledge, experience and research to come up with a totally new approach in the care for those involved. It is not a place for the actual diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Maggies Cancer Care Centre, City Hospital, Nottingham. No2
Maggies Centres are a place which offers those involved with cancer, be they a patient, family, friends or others can be offered emotional, social and practical support.
They are staffed by professionals, well skilled in cancer treatment and care, where those concerned can be offered practical advice and a meeting place for others who are involved in some way.
The first centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996 and there are now over 20 centres in the UK and abroad, in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Barcelona. They also have an online counselling and advice All the centres are individually designed by internationally well known architects and are designed to be friendly and welcoming places. They are places where people can just drop in with tea and coffee making facilities and comfy seats to relax in and meet others.
The name comes from Maggie Keswick Jencks who had advanced cancer and who died in 1995. She was appalled by the services and support offered in some places to those with cancer and she used her knowledge, experience and research to come up with a totally new approach in the care for those involved. It is not a place for the actual diagnosis and treatment of the disease.