SWAG - Your Cancer, Your Care, Your Way

"Your Cancer, Your Care, Your Way"

• Are you involved in providing cancer care, treatment or support?
• Have you - or your loved ones - recently been diagnosed with and/or had treatment for cancer?

If you can answer "yes" to either of the above questions, we want to hear from you!

Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire (SWAG) Cancer Alliance have co-produced a personalised care and support (PCS) strategy, called "Your Cancer, Your Care, Your Way", and are starting to roll it out across the region.

Your Cancer, Your care, Your Way covers the entire cancer pathway, from screening onwards. It applies to everyone, whatever type of cancer they have, wherever in the SWAG region that they live.

To support SWAG turn "Your Cancer, Your Care, Your Way" into a reality, we want to know what matters to you about personalised care in cancer.

Your voice matters - and we want to hear it!

How can you get involved to help make turn this strategy into a reality?

• Please complete the short survey.
• Pease add your stories about personalised care in cancer.
• If you want to find out more - or get involved - please contact us by email at scwcsu.c-ltadmin@nhs.net

What is personalised care?

In essence personalised care is about asking a person what matters to them, instead of asking what is the matter with them.

It changes the conversation, so that patients and those close to them are more in control and can become equal partners with those that provide their care and support.

This approach has wide-ranging benefits for patients, those close to them, and the NHS.