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About us
Our centre provides a welcoming and calm space within the hospital for anybody affected by cancer. We are a non-medical service but can help you with the practical and emotional concerns that often sit alongside a cancer diagnosis.
There is no need for you to be referred, you can ring us, email or drop in to the centre any time during our opening hours.
How we can help
- A private space to sit and talk, or just to take time out
- Quality information that you can trust
- Accessing benefits and financial support or referral to our Macmillan Advice Service
- Counselling
- Bereavement Support
- Ward visits
- Talking to children
- Support for those caring for somebody with a cancer diagnosis
- Supporting younger adults
- Travel and parking
- Information on local support services and health and wellbeing activities, support groups, exercise classes and many more.
- Wig service
- Employment support
- Exercise
- Holistic Needs Assessments
We can provide written information in large easy read print, different languages and are able to signpost you to videos, podcasts, smartphone apps or age specific information.
How do I access the service?
No appointment is necessary but if you are making a special journey to the centre or need to discuss accessibility requirements, we recommend that you contact us beforehand to ensure that we have adequate staff available.
We strive to ensure that our service is accessible to all and have wheelchair access and hearing loops installed. We are able to provide translators where required (by appointment only) and stock information in a range of formats.
The centre is open Monday – Friday 8.30am until 4.00pm (excluding bank holidays).
We also offer information and support over the phone and via email.
Telephone: 0161 061 276 6868 (answerphone available out of hours)
Email: cancer.information@mft.nhs.uk
How to find us
The Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre is located in the Main Outpatient Department at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL.
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Macmillan Welfare Rights Team
The Macmillan Welfare Rights Service is provided by Manchester City Council funded by Macmillan Cancer Support and supported by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. It is available to patients (and their families) who have a cancer diagnosis and who have had a connection to the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust central site (inpatient or outpatient) within the past 12 months.
Our service is a free and confidential.
If you are struggling to cope with the financial impact of cancer, we can help with:
- Advice and assistance on all areas of welfare benefit law from claim to appeal stage
- Accessing charitable grants
- Blue Badge applications
Contact Details
Pete Thompson and David Burgess
Office: 0161 276 324; 0161 276 3246
peter.thompson@manchester.gov.uk / pete.thompson@mft.nhs.uk
david.burgess@cmft.nhs.uk
How to find the Macmillan Welfare Rights Service
Enter MRI via MRI Main Entrance 1 (via Grafton Street), you will see WH Smiths on your left and main corridor of the purple zone on your right. Walk 50 metres down the main corridor of purple zone and my office is on your right opposite the Helipad lifts (they are marked ‘B’). There’s a green sign above our door entitled ‘Macmillan Welfare Rights Office’ and a green Macmillan leaflet rack outside.