Fatigue support

What is fatigue support?

Fatigue support is a telephone programme which includes 5 appointments with one of our Specialist Nurses. You will have 4 calls over a period of around 10 weeks. Each call will last between 30 and 45 minutes.

The Specialist Nurse will discuss your fatigue and how you have been feeling to try and help you find solutions, and better manage your tiredness.

Request an assessment for our free fatigue service

Positive changes might be things like increasing exercise slowly and gradually, increasing enjoyable social activities, getting back into hobbies, or changing your diet slightly.

How do I know if I have fatigue?

Feel tired despite getting plenty of sleep?
Lacking energy?
Can’t enjoy your hobbies because you’re tired?
Struggling to cope with returning to work?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then we want to help you with our Specialist Nurse-led Fatigue support service.

What is the goal?

We want to help you make positive changes to your behaviour and lifestyle, which should improve your fatigue over time, including:

increasing exercise slowly and gradually
being able to have fun with your friends and family
getting back into your hobbies
adjusting your diet
returning to work.

How do I get involved?

It's easy - just call our Specialist Nurses on 0800 074 8383 or fill in our form and a nurse will assess whether or not the service will suit your needs. If you are likely to benefit from this service, you can sign up right there and then. If not, the Specalist Nurses will help you find the right kind of support for you.

Please note that we are unfortunately unable to offer this service to men outside the UK.

What men tell us

I thought the service was superb, with the support nurse being so kind, understanding & thoughtful. She was at the very heart of everything and so very encouraging.

I did not think that I would be able to manage my fatigue through this programme but thought I should give it a try. Now I can see how I have benefitted considerably through the help of a structured, managed approach to improve my tiredness and build on my progress from now on.

Speaking to someone about my fatigue made me more aware of it and so I was able to work against it in a more effective way. Being told it was possible to change things also helped. It was good to have fatigue recognised as a problem that can be changed.

This service was highly commended in 2013 for The Quality in Care Oncology Awards and was shortlisted for the Nursing Times Award for cancer nursing.

Confidentiality

The Fatigue support service is confidential between you and Prostate Cancer UK. If you contact the Specialist Nurses, you may choose to provide personal information which will only be used for the purposes of delivering this service.

Any personal information provided will not be passed on to anyone else without your express permission, except in exceptional circumstances to comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct or the law. Examples of this might include children contacting the service reporting abuse, anyone reporting serious self-harm, anyone expressing the intention of harming someone else, or if a terrorist threat is reported.

Your personal information and brief details of Fatigue service call content are stored on our secure database to allow continuity of service. This part of the database is managed separately from the rest of the charity.

For further information, please see our clinical services confidentiality policy and our charity privacy policy.

Call monitoring

Please note Fatigue service calls are recorded for quality and training purposes. Call recordings are stored in line with our retention policy and destroyed securely on a rolling basis.