Living With and Beyond Cancer Programme – Watch Our Living Well Videos Now

Our Living Well videos are available to help anyone affected by cancer. The videos are packed full of practical tips, information, support and inspiration to help you, your family and friends to live as well as possible with cancer.

By watching different parts of the video you will be able to improve your understanding of fatigue, emotional health and wellbeing, physical activity and nutrition. The videos will help you to safely and confidently self-manage the most common problems caused by cancer and help you to feel more in control during and beyond your treatment.

Everyone going through cancer will be affected in different ways but we also know that people with cancer can provide fantastic support, useful suggestions and information to each other. The video includes four personal stories from local people who have kindly given their time to encourage and help others living with cancer. We hope that their stories will inform and inspire you and help you to get the right help and support for you.

Please scroll down below to view the videos.

Information in this video includes:

  • An introduction to the Living Well videos by Leah Morgan, the Macmillan Living with & Beyond Cancer Project Manager
  • Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs)
  • Hear Clare, Sarah, Colin and Hannah’s stories about what living well means to them

Information in this video includes:

  • What is eating well?
  • The “building up” diet
  • Myth busting
  • Tips and advice

Information in this video includes:

  • The benefits of exercise and activity
  • How much to do and what counts as exercise
  • What to do if you are experiencing fatigue
  • Tips and advice
  • Top to toe mobilisation exercises
  • Watch, and join in with, some chair based and standing exercises

Information in this video includes:

  • What is fatigue?
  • How to manage your energy levels
  • What can help with fatigue
  • Tips and advice
  • Fatigue diary
  • Goal setting
  • Where to go for help
  • Hear Liz’s experience of fatigue
  • Mindfulness
  • Practical advice and guidance

Information in this video includes:

  • What is emotional wellbeing?
  • Hear Angela, Clare and Colin discuss their experiences on emotional wellbeing and what helped them
  • Service available to help

Information in this video includes:

  • Hear about the practice and benefits of visualisation
  • Take an opportunity to try visualisation in practice

Thank you to our filmmakers – Roger and Angela Turner (pictured below) and to our patient volunteers Clare, Sarah, Colin and Hannah.

We hope the Living Well video will be watched by many people in Shropshire and throughout the West Midlands. The making of the video would not have been possible without the expertise and commitment of Roger and Angela Turner who have filmed the videos with such professionalism and sensitivity. Angela and Roger are volunteers at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital (SaTH) and we are extremely grateful to them for all their dedicated help and support.

Our thanks also go to our many colleagues in SaTH, Wolverhampton, Hereford and Worcester, Dudley and Walsall who contributed so generously to making the videos and to our patient volunteers Clare, Sarah, Colin and Hannah who have shared their stories here.

Send Us Your Feedback

We want to make our services for people Living With and Beyond Cancer the best they possibly can be. Please share your comments and suggestions about this video with us. You can do this by emailing Edith on e.macalister@nhs.net, or completing the collapsible feedback form below:

    Which of these categories best represents your experience of cancer? (please select all that apply)

    What stage of treatment are you currently at?

    How old are you?

    What gender are you?

    How would you describe your ethnicity?

    To what extent did the video help you understand fatigue and how you can manage your fatigue (as a patient, relative or friend)

    To what extent did the video help you to understand and cope with some of the emotional concerns caused by cancer? (as a patient, relative or friend)

    To what extent did the video help you to understand the importance of physical activity in staying well and helping you to become more physically active? (as a patient, relative or friend)

    To what extent did the video help you understand the importance of healthy eating and nutrition and help you to improve your diet and nutrition?

    After watching the video are you more likely to use any additional local services or support groups?

    Have you previously attended one of our community based "Living Well Sessions"?

    If "yes" to the above, what additional benefits did you get from watching the "Living Well" videos?

    If "no" to the above, are you now more likely to attend one?

    Do you have any other comments or suggestions to help us improve the video or other services for people affected by cancer?

    For Information about how we use your data please see our Privacy Page.

    If you would like to give additional information to our feedback form then you can also complete our Demographic Questions and send them to sath.lwbc@nhs.net 

    For information about our Living Well Sessions in 2020 please visit our Living With and Beyond Page.