Practical support
Our range of wellbeing provisions and packs is freely available to any ANCHOR patient.
Patient packs
Our various packs include carefully selected provisions to bring additional comfort and practical support at different points in your treatment.
Chemo care pack
Provisions to help you manage the possible side effects of treatment, with intensive moisturiser to help ease dryness, a digital thermometer, natural ginger sweets and wrist bands to help combat nausea, and an activity book to provide a welcome break.
Inpatient care pack
To help bring comfort and practical support during your stay in the ward, with a personal fan, eye mask, sleep spray and ear plugs, herbal tea and an activity book.
Post-surgical breast care pack
With items hand-selected by the women’s services team to encourage you to take good care of yourself post-breast surgery. With a soothing lip balm, natural deodorant, hydrating face and foot masks and a mindful colouring book and pencils.
Radiotherapy care pack
As you finish radiotherapy treatment, our hope is these items will encourage you to relax and take good care of yourself. With a notebook, pen and journaling prompts, a relaxing calm balm, microwavable heat pack and activity book.
Wellbeing provisions
Anti Sickness Aids
To help alleviate feelings of nausea we offer
- Gin Gins (an all-natural ginger sweet)
- sea bands
Hair and Scalp Care
- Soothing conditioner to nourish a dry scalp
- Wig Care Packs to keep your wig or hair piece looking and feeling its best.
- One free head covering gifted to those facing hair loss
- We also provide provisions for patients who are using the Paxman scalp cooler. These are available on the ward.
Medical aids
Digital thermometers for keeping a close eye on temperature
Moisturising Udderly Smooth cream available within the ANCHOR Unit only
Picc line and stoma bag covers to keep vital treatment lines secure, dry and feeling comfortable
Post-surgery breast pillow and drain bags that provide multi-functional support and comfort
There are portable DVD players and a vast selection of DVDs available for your viewing pleasure during your stay.
The full list of films and box sets available is shown below.
| 2 Fast 2 Furious |
| A Prophet |
| Abduction |
| After Earth |
| Armageddon |
| Avengers Endgame |
| Babel |
| Batman |
| Battle: Los Angeles |
| Black Hawk Down |
| Blade 2 |
| Body of Lies |
| Brokeback Mountain |
| Charlie's Angels |
| Collateral Damage |
| Commando |
| Conan the Barbarian |
| CopOut |
| Demolition Man |
| Den of Thieves |
| Dogma |
| Easy Money |
| Elektra |
| End of Days |
| Exit Wounds |
| Fight Club |
| Focus |
| Gangs of New York |
| Gangs of New York - Disc 1 |
| Gangs of New York - Disc 2 |
| Godzilla King of the Monsters |
| Hancock |
| Harry Brown |
| Inception |
| Inception 2 |
| Kelly's Heros |
| Knight and Day |
| Man on Fire |
| Matrix Reloaded |
| Michael Caine Collection |
| Minority Report |
| Oblivion |
| Once Upon A Time In The West |
| Patriots Day |
| Phonebooth |
| Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl |
| Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Mans Chest |
| Predator |
| Punisher |
| Rampage |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| Saints & Soldiers |
| San Andreas |
| Shark in Venice |
| Shooter |
| Skyfall |
| Sleepers |
| Street Kings |
| The 51st State |
| The Dark Knight 2 |
| The Fast and Furious 5 |
| The Fast and The Furious |
| The Fast and The Furious - Tokyo Drift |
| The Fugitive |
| The Guardian |
| The Kingdom |
| The Last Samurai |
| The Last Witness |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| The Meg |
| The Mummy |
| The Sum of All Fears |
| The Talking of Pelham 123 |
| The Untouchables |
| Thin Red Line |
| Thunderball |
| Tomb Raider |
| Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life |
| Traffic |
| Troy |
| Way of the Gun |
| X-Men 1.5 |
| X-Men 2 |
| X-Men Days of Future Past |
| XXX |
