© 2025 Barnsley Cancer Information
© 2025 Barnsley Cancer Information
The role of the team is to provide expert advice to the medical team on a wide range of cancer-related issues and to provide patients and your families with support, information and advice whilst you are in the hospital, during the first 24-72 hrs of your stay.
If you’re already being treated for your cancer in another hospital we can liaise between your medical and cancer teams. We will help to access relevant clinical information which may be essential in planning your care here at Barnsley Hospital.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer during this admission we will help ensure that the most appropriate tests are performed and that the correct treatment is planned.
The Acute Oncology nurses work closely with your Cancer Nurse Specialist to offer you and your family support and information, to help you in coping with your diagnosis, and to ensure that you feel able to make decisions about future treatment and care.
The breast care nursing team and Macmillan cancer support worker are based in the breast clinic, women’s services, purple zone on the ground floor. The breast nursing team aims to provide practical and emotional support for patients diagnosed with breast cancer throughout their treatment and during follow up. Where disease has spread you may be referred to the metastatic breast care nurse.
We administer anti-cancer therapies to patients with solid tumors as well as haematological malignancies. Chemotherapy may also be delivered at Sheffield or another official site in the Barnsley area.
Our service aims to ensure that all patients referred to the service receive high quality, evidence-based care.
We support patients diagnosed with skin cancers, for example Squamous cell carcinomas, Malignant melanomas and Atypical Fibroxanthoma among others.
We support ladies who have been diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer including cervical, endometrial, vaginal, vulval, ovarian and primary peritoneal. We offer emotional support at the point of the patient receiving bad news and provide both written and verbal information relating to next steps in the patients cancer pathway. We are your point of contact should you have any queries or questions in relation to your care. We attend the Multi Disciplinary Team meeting which takes place on a weekly basis and links in with Sheffield. From this we provide updates to you regarding discussion at this meeting and potential treatment plan. Following decisions made at the MDT we provide updates for patients following MDT discussion. We also liase with relevant departments when patients require supportive treatments/ investigation i.e. ascitic drains or biopsies.
Our team is based on Ward 23 but work on both Ward 24 and the Chemo unit. Our Consultants are based in the labs.
We look after the people of Barnsley that have a blood cancer. This can be Leukaemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma, Myelodysplasia and Myeloproliferative Neoplasm. We give support with diagnosis and what it means and also with any treatments required. We provide holistic care from our Macmillan Cancer Support Worker who performs holistic needs assessment. We also have a support group for our patients and their relatives and a Facebook page.
Our Head and Neck Team are based in outpatients department for patient appointments.
We also support people with Head and Neck cancers, which include ear, nose, throat, mouth, tongue, skin of head and neck, some eye cancers, salivary glands and thyroid. We support people from cancer diagnosis to discharge at 5 years follow up. As Head and Neck we support initially other cancer groups who have presented with neck lumps and been diagnosed with other types of cancers such as skin primaries, lymphomas, and others, before facilitating transfer to the appropriate team to take over care and treatment.
Most of our patients have their treatment in Sheffield they remain under our care throughout. We keep in contact with patients via post treatment calls for patients who have surgery and mid and end treatment calls for oncology treatments.
Contact can be made via mobile or email for questions/queries/concerns or just for a chat.
We also support patients who have tracheostomies ( with and without cancers) and laryngectomies. We have weekly clinics as well as adhoc face to face clinic appointments for patients with problems or routine treatments.
We are based in the respiratory outpatients department behind the chest clinic
The specialist palliative care team see a range of long-term conditions as well as complex cancers. The service runs Mon through Sun, and will review patients with multiple symptoms or complex family/ physical/ emotional needs. This may be for patients who are newly diagnosed, but the majority of the work will be for patients with advanced disease. The team works closely with the Palliative Medical Doctors but essentially runs day to day as a nurse-led service.
Complex end of life care patients may also be followed up by the specialist team, but general palliative (comfort care/ medicinal plans) should be managed by generic ward-based Drs and Nurses.
Supporting patients diagnosed with Oesophageal, Stomach, Pancreatic , gallbladder and liver cancer.
We support patients at the time of diagnosis and support the symptoms that the cancer causes.
We support the care transition between Sheffield Hospitals and the oncology team at Weston Park Hospital.
We have access to the vast support services and information that Macmillan provide also have access to services and agencies in Barnsley that support patients diagnosed with cancer.
We support patients that have had investigations that have identified a cancer that has spread into other organs and there is no initial primary site seen.
This is a complex diagnostic pathway with an advanced cancer diagnosis initially and it is imperative that further invasive investigations only continue if the individual is well enough at the time.
The Cancer Nurse Specialist team supports many inpatient and outpatient hospital consultant teams. In this complex diagnostic pathway, these patients are generally unwell at the time of referral to the hospital.
The nursing team have access to the vast support services and information that Macmillan provide, they also have access to services and agency’s in Barnsley.
Working together with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Barnsley Hospital Urology Department provides outpatient services for people with urological cancers including; Prostate, Bladder, Kidney, Testicular and Penile. Through our Urology Investigation Unit (UIU) we provide tests that help to diagnose urological cancers such as scans and biopsies. Some surgery and treatments are also provided here in Barnsley, but we also work closely with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (Royal Hallamshire and Weston Park Hospitals) who provided more complex treatments and surgery.
There are also a number of nurse led services and follow up clinics that are provided through the UIU for example bladder treatments for bladder cancer. There are also outpatient nurse-led clinics for patients with or have had treatment for prostate and kidney cancer that provides patients with ongoing support. In addition, the cancer nurses in conjunction with the cancer support worker provide practical and emotional support including holistic needs assessments for patients with a diagnosis of cancer.