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Students offer services free to cancer patients

POSTED 26 May 2009 . BY Sarah Todd

A new partnership has been formed between the UK-based University of Derby in Buxton and a local hospice, to give cancer patients free complementary therapies.

After completing specialist training, the university's spa managers and assessors have taught students how to deliver therapies to cancer patients and carers associated with Blythe House Hospice, in Chapel en le Frith.

The treatments are offered at either the hospice or the university's Devonshire Spa facility.

The initiative is intended to help people cope with the effects of their illness and the side-effects of their treatments. Details: derby.ac.uk

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Students offer services free to cancer patients

POSTED 26 May 2009 . BY Sarah Todd

A new partnership has been formed between the UK-based University of Derby in Buxton and a local hospice, to give cancer patients free complementary therapies.

The treatments are offered at either the hospice or the university's Devonshire Spa facility.

The initiative is intended to help people cope with the effects of their illness and the side-effects of their treatments. Details: derby.ac.uk

Sign up here to get your choice of the Spa Business and Spa Business insider weekly ezines, breaking news alerts and every issue of Spa Business and Spa Business insider magazines FREE on digital.

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Almost half of spa survey respondents are unaware cancer is a disability and not adapting treatments is discrimination

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