Your GP manages your healthcare when you are at home. They have an important role to play in the longer term management of your health, which may be affected by your cancer or its treatment. Your GP can make referrals to community services that can provide ongoing support. The availability of the different community services may vary, depending on where you live.
Click here to watch a video about support from your GP, click here to watch a video on preparing for your appointment and click here to watch a video around how the GP supports patient safety.
Social Prescribing teams work closely with GP practices in both Sunderland and South Tyneside to enable them to become happier, healthier, more socially connected and empowered in their own lives.
Nahida and Saddiya's Story
“Some people are afraid to use the word cancer in our community.” Please click here to listen to Nahida and Saddiya talk about the challenges that people with cancer can face in the South Asian community – speaking in their mother tongue Sylheti (a dialect of Bengali).
