Award of Cancer Care Services in Brent to Cancer Black Care

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NHS Shared Business Services awarded a contract to Cancer Black Care for cancer care services in Brent, valued at £37,500.

The contract covers an accessible service for service users, carers, friends, and family affected by cancer, with a focus on the BAME community.

Cancer Black Care provides assistance to residents of BAME background to develop more effective coping strategies, ensuring a culturally-sensitive personalised approach.

It offers a supportive drop-in service at the heart of the community, reaching Inclusion Health Groups and communities identifying as Caribbean, African, Irish, Asian, Chinese, and other Mixed heritage.

The service promotes health and social inclusion, tackles root causes of cancer through open health forums on cancer education, and provides user-friendly non-clinical information and awareness of risk factors and healthy living.

Outreach services involve staff and volunteers visiting service users in homes, hospitals, and hospices to assess needs.

Talks on community radio stations raise cancer awareness.

The aims include raising awareness of cancer within Brent communities, addressing diverse and emotional needs of people affected by cancer from the BAME community with culturally sensitive information and personalised advice, providing appropriate information on all aspects of cancer care including recent awareness campaigns for Covid-19 vaccination in the BAME community, providing essential advocacy and support services to those affected by cancer as well as their carers, family, and friends, and exercising responsible influence on the provision of health and social care services to ensure they are culturally sensitive.