Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Cancer Care

26/01/2026

🎨 Colour & Confidence with Lindsay West at our Live Well with Cancer Day🎨

Colour has a powerful effect — not just on how we look, but on how we feel. When so much can feel out of your control, the right colours can make a real difference.

Wearing colours that suit you can brighten your complexion, draw attention to your eyes, and give you a healthier, more rested appearance — boosting confidence, wellbeing, and your sense of self during a challenging time.

Join Lindsay West, of House of Colour Salisbury, to help you discover the colours that make you feel brighter, stronger, and more yourself again.

🗓 Saturday 31st January 2026
🕙 10:00 – 16:00
📍 The Bowman Centre, Amesbury, SP4 7XT

We invite anyone with cancer into a supportive space to explore activities that boost wellbeing during your cancer journey.

✨ Free entry & refreshments
✨ No need to book — just come along!
✨ Open to family members and carers too

Try a range of uplifting and engaging experiences for free, including:
🎨 Art🧘 Yoga🎤 Singing🎨 Pottery💄 Skin care🎨 Colour analysis🧘 Mindfulness🎣 Meet with the fishing group🍎 Find out more about nutrition

Proudly supported by Stars Appeal - Salisbury District Hospital's Charity 💛

We look forward to seeing you there!

21/01/2026

🌟 Live Well with Cancer Day
🗓 Saturday 31st January 2026
🕙 10:00 – 16:00
📍 The Bowman Centre, Amesbury, SP4 7XT

We invite anyone with cancer into a supportive space to explore activities that boost wellbeing during your cancer journey.

✨ Free entry & refreshments
✨ No need to book — just come along!
✨ Open to family members and carers too

Try a range of uplifting and engaging experiences for free, including:
🎨 Art
🧘 Yoga
🎤 Singing
🎨 Pottery
💄 Skin care
🎨 Colour analysis
🧘 Mindfulness
🎣 Meet with the fishing group
🍎 Find out more about nutrition

Proudly supported by Stars Appeal - Salisbury District Hospital's Charity 💛

We’d love to see you there! 💫

12/01/2026

12th January to 16th of January is Less Survivable Cancer Awareness Week.

This is aimed to highlight the six less survivable types of cancer.

Each year, around 90,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with one of these types of cancer which are:

🧠 Brain
💚 Liver
🫁 Lung
💙 Oesophageal
💜 Pancreatic
💜 Stomach

Four of these are digestive cancers. More information can be found on the Guts UK website:

Guts UK is a founding charity member of the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT).We help to raise vital awareness for the less survivable cancers, four of which are digestive cancers

05/01/2026

📣 January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month with Cervical Cancer Prevention Week taking place on the 19th to 25th of January 2026.

🤔 The aim of this is to help people understand about cervical cancer and its symptoms. More than 3,200 people are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in the UK.

Symptoms can include:

🩵 Heavier than normal periods
🩵 Vaginal bleeding between periods, after s*x and after the menopause
🩵 Pain during s*x
🩵 Pain in your lower back, between your hip bones (pelvis), or in your lower tummy

More information is available on the NHS website:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cervical-cancer/symptoms/

*This event has been cancelled*
To help raise awareness of Cancer Awareness month, Cancer Services and Engagement & Experience Coordinator, Jo (pictured below at a previous event) will be available at Salisbury Market on Tuesday 6th January 2026 from 10am until 2pm.

She will be available to:

☑️ Raise awareness of prevention with information to hand out
☑️ Signpost people if needed
☑️ Get feedback from the community

Come along and find out more about cancer services within Salisbury hospital!

29/12/2025

🎉🎊 Warmest wishes for 2026! 🥳

During the bank holidays, services within the hospital will be the same as what is available during weekends.

Although some members of staff across the hospital may be on leave over the holiday season, this will not affect your cancer care as there are members of staff patients can contact in an emergency, or if you have any concerns or questions.

Regarding your medical treatment or condition, as normal please contact your medical team at the hospital, 999, 111 or your GP – depending on the circumstance.

📞 If you need any advice on chemotherapy side-effects and complications, The Oncology Hotline Number is 01722 341930 and this will be manned 24 hours a day.

Support from our administrative staff will be available as normal, except on the bank holidays when offices will be closed.

Outside of opening hours, if you have a non-urgent question, please leave a message on 01722 336 262 (ext. 2417) or email sft.cancersupportteam@nhs.net and someone from the Cancer Support Workers team will get back to you.

22/12/2025

Season’s greetings from The Cancer Support Team. 🎄🎅🎁

Wishing you a wonderful day.

❤️ We would like to say a BIG thank you to all our staff who continue to provide a high level of care and to all our patients and their families.

Maggie’s have lots of useful information on how to cope with cancer at Christmas such as feeling overwhelmed and stressed, feeling lonely and also practical tips if you are receiving cancer treatment during the festive season:

Find practical and emotional support for coping with cancer at Christmas, and where to find support over the festive season and new year.

17/12/2025

📣 Jane Scarth House in Romsey have a Craft for Wellbeing session on Friday 19th December from 10am-1pm. This session is aimed to provide a friendly environment for everyone and allow them to engage in creative activities using slow stitching techniques plus more. 🪡🧵

These sessions are run fortnightly where you can come along for a relaxing and creative “me time” with a hot drink. ☕🫖

Everyone is welcome and it is suitable for beginners.

📆 Their Christmas opening hours are as follows:
Monday 22nd December 09:00-16:00
Tuesday 23rd December 09:00-16:00
Wednesday 24th December 09:00-12:30
Thursday 25th December Closed
Friday 26th December Closed
Monday 29th December 09:00-15:00
Tuesday 30th December 09:00-15:30
Wednesday 31st December 09:00-12:30
Thursday 1st January Closed
Friday 2nd January 09:00-15:00

Jane Scarth House are also launching a new Carers Support Group from Monday 19th January 2026 from 2pm-3:30pm.

This is a group for people who are helping to support a cancer patient and can meet other carers and enjoy a friendly and supportive chat. 🙂

For more information, visit:
https://www.janescarthhouse.co.uk/

15/12/2025

📣 December is Cancer related fatigue awareness month,

💤 Fatigue can be caused by cancer itself or the side effects of the treatments. Fatigue is described as feeling exhausted or very tired mostly or all the time.

Cancer related fatigue can affect you emotionally, physically and mentally.

More information can be found on the Cancer Research UK website:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/coping/physically/fatigue/what-is-cancer-fatigue

📣 Salisbury Hospital have launched webinars on the new Cancer Support YouTube channel with lots of information to help you understand anxiety, fatigue and sleep in the context of cancer. They provide practical tips if you are feeling anxious, fatigued or struggling to sleep.

Some patients who used the webinars have had these fantastic comments to say about attending them:

🖤 "What I found most helpful about the webinar was knowing that I wasn’t on my own, I wasn’t making things up or exaggerating things. The chemo related fatigue I am experiencing is real, as is the intermittent brain fog, which I find very frustrating and debilitating at times. In turn, the webinar proposed a series of tactics, I could deploy - things like avoiding boom and bust cycles and keeping up my exercise regime. So, thank you Emma for producing this massively valuable webinar".

🖤 GB – Nov 2025 ‘The Managing Cancer Related fatigue webinar is very well put together in a form that a layman can understand. A lot of the content is common sense but having it all in one webinar concentrates the mind and helped me manage my fatigue day to day. Thank you’.

🖤 PG – August 2025 ‘I found it really useful - it is streets ahead of one I saw a while back and mentioned to you this morning. It has lots of useful points and things I hadn't considered and presented in a very well-structured way. It also makes me feel less guilty when I don't manage to do all the things I had planned to do in a day, and ways of addressing it. I will watch the webinar again and make a list of things to do. I will also check out some links you mentioned at the end'.

To access the webinars, click on the link below:
https://youtu.be/Z4rIYSlWzA8?si=ACNilplf0aXW9Ify

Fatigue means feeling very tired, exhausted and lacking energy. It can be a symptom of the cancer itself or a side effect of treatment.

08/12/2025

🧡 ☀️ Shine Cancer Support are hosting a Christmas dinner where you are invited to come along. We will be meeting on Saturday 13th of December at 7pm at The Ox Row in Salisbury city centre.

Shine Cancer Support are a charity aimed at supporting people with cancer in their 20s, 30s and 40s and bringing them together with regular meet ups. 🗓

Enjoy the festive period and get a tasty Christmas meal on Shine completely free! 🎄⛄🍽🎅

If you want to come, please RSVP below so a table can be reserved. Please feel free to pass this on to any friends or family who might want to come.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScF-N6YV8bAT1afvVPFYxsreIuVU1_cEHycHtMmpeRCp9g6EQ/viewform

02/12/2025

This week (2nd- 8th of December) is National Grief Awareness Week. This is aimed to highlight the effects of grief experienced in many ways.

This could be several things such as:

🖤The end of a relationship
🖤Losing your job
🖤Moving to a new location
🖤A decline in the physical or mental health of someone we are about.

👥 Talking about it can help and Open Door Warminster have a Grief & Bereavement Support Group available as a drop-in service.

📍They meet on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month from 10am until 12pm at the Athenaeum, Warminster, and the Cancer Support Cancer Support Café meet on the 1st and 3rd Friday at the same time and place.

📣 They will be closed on Friday 26th of December and Friday 2nd of January.

There is no need to book, come a long for an informal chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit. ☕🍪

28/11/2025

📣On Tuesday 2nd of December, Jo - Cancer Services Engagement and Experience Coordinator and Emma- Macmillan Cancer Support Occupational Therapist will be at the Market Square in Salisbury City centre.

They will be there to:

⭐️ Provide the community with information on our new digital resources
⭐ Publicise the range of Cancer Support services available in the community
⭐ Represent the Trust and answer questions about how to engage with Cancer Services
⭐ Promote the range of Macmillan resources available and how to access these to the local community.

They will be there from 10am until 2pm so come down and say hello. 🙂👋

26/11/2025

November is recognised as Men’s Health Awareness month.

This annual event is to highlight the challenges men face including mental health and cancer awareness.

〰️ Movember is a campaign you might be aware of which raises awareness for men’s health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer, su***de prevention and mental health.

More information can be found on their website:
https://uk.movember.com/

The Cancer Support Team have put together the following resource leaflet to show local and national support services for prostate cancer: