Services

Nutrition and Dietitian

Dietitians can support you to eat and drink well if you have a diagnosis of cancer. Good nutrition can help you remain healthy and strong during cancer treatment, improves your quality of life, and combats treatment side effects and illness. Dietitians can assess what nutrition advice you need at each stage of your care.

Social Work Services

Social Work aims to understand people’s difficulties within the context of their social environment and to help individuals find their own strengths to resolve these difficulties.

Psychological Services

The Psychological Services department gives psychological and emotional support to the patient (inpatient and outpatient) and their significant others.

Physiotherapy

The physiotherapy department offers its services to inpatients and outpatients experiencing physical limitations due to cancer and/or its treatment.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy addresses the quality of life of the individual, by focusing on the physical, sensory, cognitive and psychosocial needs. The ultimate goal is to help the person achieve functional independence while also being comfortable and productive in different environments.

Aurora Support Service

Aurora is a support service available for oncology patients, led by practice nurse in Chemotherapy. The aim of this service is to educate and support oncology patients.

Practice Nurse in Chemotherapy

The Practice nurse in chemotherapy will be meeting you and your family at the initial stages of chemotherapy treatment. She will continue to act as a point of contact throughout your chemotherapy treatment.

Hematology Practice Nurse

The Hematology Practice Nurse provides specialist care to blood cancer patients (haemato-oncology), and their person/s of trust. The Hematology Practice Nurse works in conjunction with the Hematologists and their respective medical teams.

Focal Nurse in Radiotherapy

At the radiotherapy department, one can find the service of the radiotherapy Focal nurses. The Focal nurses will assess you prior commencing radiotherapy and will address your treatment-related queries.

Departments

Day Care

A team of professionals will be looking after you. The team consists of oncology consultants and medical doctors, nurses, practice nurses, paramedic aides, reception staff, pharmacists and the clinical support services (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers and psychologists).

Outpatients

The Oncology outpatients caters for all adult and paediatric patients having cancer i.e. haematology and oncology. A team of healthcare staff professionals will look after you while visiting the Oncology outpatients.

Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy treatment is given in the radiotherapy department as a series of short daily sessions. Each treatment takes 10–15 minutes. The treatment is usually given Monday–Friday with a rest at the weekend, for a duration of 3-7 weeks depending on the individual.

Phlebotomy

Patients attend the clinic when they need to undertake blood investigations. Phlebotomists offer their service to all the in-patients and out-patients visiting the clinic.