Last year, some of our Voices helped staff at Active Together to expand their services to offer support for people in Sheffield who are having breast cancer surgery.
What’s the project about?
Active Together is a service in Sheffield which supports people with cancer to prepare for and recover from their cancer treatment.
They do this through help with exercise, diet and wellbeing support in the run up to treatment, and 3 months afterwards.
In 2024, they’d been working with people with bowel, lung and other cancers for a couple of years, and they wanted to expand the service to include patients with breast cancer.
They wanted to hear from people with lived experience of breast cancer who’d been treated in Sheffield, to support them in making the service the best it can be to meet patients' needs.
How did Voices get involved?
Active Together recruited 4 Voices for a focus group in Autumn 2024. They talked about what support the Voices felt people having breast cancer treatment could need, and how Active Together could support them.
What’s happened so far?
Thanks to the insight and advice from the Voices who took part, Active Together has now started to offer support to people who’ve had immediate reconstruction surgery.
The support they give includes helping with diet and exercise, and they also offer wellbeing support, and direct people to Breast Cancer Now.
What are the next steps?
So far, Active Together has supported 20 people who’ve had breast surgery, and they hope that this will rise to 80 people during 2025.
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