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THE NATIONAL HEAD & NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

Heads2gether Annual General Meeting

 

The 2009 Annual General Meeting was held in Henley on 29th June. The Committee used the meeting to inform the membership of the key achievements over the last twelve months:

 

• Membership of the group now exceeds 80.
• This year saw a packed schedule of social events including punting, walks, ten pin bowling, open gardens and skittles (with the renal support group FROG).
• Eighth members now trained as telephone Supporters and seven as Buddies. One member trained to Cancer Support Certificate standard.
• Establishment of our telephone support line.
• We now have a code of practice document outlining confidentiality policy, organisational and support structure and safety code.
• Participation in the Mouth Cancer Awareness Week activity at the JR. Hundreds of people viewed the exhibits and dozens of people were given advice or referral.
• We now receive approximately equal number of patient referrals from Clinical Nurse Specialists or therapists and our own marketing efforts.
• Networking has led to significant co-operation with other groups (one being a very close tie with the H&N Support Group at Addenbrooks). We are now considering offering support Nationally and we are engaged in appointing and training a national network of Supporters who can deal with enquiries from our telephone support line.
• Publicity for our work has been broadcast on local and national TV.

 

Read the Minutes of the meeting here...

 

Changes to the Heads2gether Constitution were agreed at the meeting, view it here...