Our Services A - Z - Lilac Centre

• About the Team

  Clinical Director / Lead Haematology Consultant - Dr Toby Nicholson

  Macmillan Consultant in Medical Oncology - Dr Ernie Marshall

  Cancer Lead Nurse - Diane Dearden

  Chemotherapy Lead Nurse - Wendy Ebbrell

  Lilac Centre Manager - David Keegan

  Unit Sisters

  • Lindsey Ditchfield
  • Louise Dutton
  • Victoria Gallagher
  • ​Hannah Coughlin

  Counsellor and Complementary Therapy Co-ordinators

  • Shirley Deveney
  • Gill Levey
• Location

  St Helens – Lower Ground Floor, Purple Zone

• Contact Details

  Lilac Centre 

  Reception Tel: 01744 646 166
  Nurse station Tel: 01744 646169/6170

  Haematology Patients - Out of hours 5.00pm – 09.00am (Weekends & Bank holidays)

  Ward 2A Tel: 0151 430 1560        

  Oncology Patients - Out of hours 5.00pm to 09.00am (Weekends & Bank holidays)

  Clatterbridge Tel: 0800 169 5555

  Lilac Centre Counselling Service Tel: 01744 646173

  Haematology Ward 2A Whiston Hospital Tel: 0151 430 1560

  Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist Tel: 01744 646794

  Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist Tel: 01744 646796 or 01744 646789

  Macmillan Cancer Information Centre at St Helens Hospital Tel: 01744 647000

• Volunteers

  The Lilac Centre has a number of volunteers who help; providing an exceptional service to both patients and support to staff. This includes helping with day to day activities on the Lilac Centre and also providing some of our complementary therapies. They are all exceptional and extremely appreciated.

• Relevant Leaflets/Documents/Links

  Breast Cancer Care

  www.breastcancercare.org.uk/
  Main switchboard:

  Tel: 020 7960 3400

  Information and services:

  Tel: 0345 077 1895

  St Helens Cancer Support Group

  93 Corporation Street, St Helens WA10 1SX.

  Tel: 01744 21831

  Lyndale Knowsley Cancer Support Centre

  40 Huyton Lane, Huyton, Liverpool L36 7XG.

  Tel: 0151 489 3538

  St Helens Central Carers Support Group

  Carers Centre,

  31-35 Baldwin Street, St Helens WA10 2RS.

  Tel: 01744 675615

  Widnes & Runcorn Cancer Support

  Tel: 0151 423 5730/0151 424 8989

  DSS Benefits Enquiry Line

  Tel: 08457 123456​

  Title - Accessing Your Patient Portal Following a Skin Cancer Diagnosis

  Description - Your follow up will include regular face to face contact with your specialist skin cancer team and access to an online patient portal called My Medical Record (MMR).

  Title - Care of your peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)

  Description - A PICC is a peripherally inserted central catheter. It is a thin flexible tube that is inserted into a vein in the upper arm.

  Title - Colorectal Unit self supported follow up

  Description - Follow-up is necessary as, in a small number of cases, bowel cancer can return. Your surveillance investigations ensure any problems that arise are picked up early.

  Title - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pleural Aspiration Aftercare advice

  Description - After the procedure, a small dressing will be placed over the puncture wound site. This can be removed after 24 hours.

  Title - Enhanced Rapid Discharge Home

  Description - The Enhanced Rapid Discharge from hospital to home is designed to support the wishes of patients in their last hours or days of life when their preferred place of care is home.

  Title - Having a lung biopsy

  Description - A lung biopsy is a way of getting a sample of tissue from the lungs using a small needle. It helps us to find out what is wrong.

  Title - Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team

  Description - This leaflet has been written to answer some of the questions that you may have about Palliative Care, and the provision of Palliative Care within our hospitals.

  Title - My Medical Record (MMR)

  Description - Have your opportunity to enhance your quality of care. Are you under the care of the St Helens Skin Cancer Team? In addition to regular face to face follow up appointments, you may also be eligible for access to an online patient portal called My Medical Record (MMR).

  Title - Neck Dissection

  Description - Your consultant has advised that you need to have surgery to remove the lymph nodes, also known as glands, from your neck in an operation called a neck dissection.

  Title - Rapid Diagnostics Service

  Description - Your GP has referred you to the non specific rapid diagnostics service because you have symptoms that may need further investigation.

  Title - Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

  Description - This booklet should be read in conjunction with the Understanding Melanoma and Treatment with Surgery Information booklet.

  Title - Skin Cancer and War Pension

  Description - Men and women with skin cancer who have served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces may well qualify for a lump sum payment or regular pension if it is believed that the tumour arose as a result of sun exposure during their period of service.

  Title - St Helens Macmillan Cancer information and support service

  Description - Being told ‘you have cancer’ can affect so much more than your health — it can also affect your family, your job, even your ability to pay the bills.

  Title - Suspected Primary Brain Tumours

  Description - You have been given this leaflet following a scan which has shown an abnormality in your brain which may be a brain tumour. This leaflet is to help you understand what is happening. It explores how you may feel, what will happen next and who to contact if you are worried. In this leaflet we will try to answer some of the practical questions that you may have in terms of next steps and potential treatment options.

  Title - Suspected Secondary Brain Tumours

  Description - You have been given this leaflet following a scan which has shown an abnormality in your brain which may be a secondary brain tumour. This leaflet is to help you understand what is happening. It explores how you may feel, what will happen next and who to contact if you are worried. In this leaflet we will try to answer some of the practical questions that you may have in terms of next steps and potential treatment options.

  Title - The Cutting Room, Hairdressing and Wig Salon Service

  Description - This booklet explains the services provided by our two professional hairdressers/wig technicians at The Cutting Room. The Cutting Room is a private, fully equipped salon, which is based at the Lilac Centre at St Helens Hospital.

  Title - The Lilac Centre/ Ward 2A

  Description - This booklet is designed to give you any relevant information about your care and treatment whilst having chemotherapy or other treatments both as a day patient on the Lilac Centre, St Helens Hospital or as an inpatient on Ward 2A, Whiston Hospital.

  Title - The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Explained

  Description - This leaflet contains information about the multidisciplinary team who will be looking after you.

  Title - Welcome to Haematology Supported Self-management follow-up

  Description - Traditionally, patients with a haematology condition such as yours have attended clinic for a face to face review with the team to discuss blood results and any new symptoms.

  Title - Your Hospital Team

  Description - Our aim is to provide high quality personalised care, ensuring that patients are supported to make decisions that are right for them, achieved through working together with clinical teams and patients and their families...

• Patient Information Leaflets

  Title - Lilac Centre - Counselling and Holistic Therapy Services

  Description - The Counselling and Holistic Therapies Service is based on an holistic approach, ‘holistic’ meaning to take the whole person into consideration - mind, body and emotions.

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Hot Stone Massage Therapy

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have hot stone massage, or who would like information about it.

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Hypnotherapy

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have hypnotherapy or who would like information about it. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy".

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Therapies Aromatherapy

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have aromatherapy, or who would like information about it.

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Therapies Indian Head Massage

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have Indian Head massage or who would like information about it.

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Therapies Massage

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have a massage treatment or who would like information about it.

  Title - Lilac Centre Holistic Therapies Reflexology

  Description - This factsheet is for people who are planning to have reflexology or who would like information about it. Reflexology is a complementary therapy based on applying pressure to the feet and hands using specific thumb, finger and hand techniques without the use of oil, cream or lotion.

  Title - Therapy Aftercare Advice

  Description - Complimentary therapy treatments such as aromatherapy should be a wonderful experience, and may help to improve health and well-being. The treatments encourage the elimination of waste products from the body, and may help to balance body energy. Clients should take note of the following...
• Relaxation Techniques - Audio Tracks

  Please use the links below to listen to our relaxation tracks:

   

Page last updated on 01st June 2022