The LSN actively encourages the formation of local lymphoedema support groups that provide information, education and mutual support for people with lymphoedema, their families and carers. Support groups may be run by health care professionals or patients and are generally based in lymphoedema clinics or local centres.
The LSN maintains contact with the majority of lymphoedema support groups in the UK and Ireland and can provide contact details for the locations listed below.
LSN members are also welcome to attend regular meetings held throughout the year at the Education and Conference Centre, The Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea. Full details of the meetings are printed in the newsletter LymphLine.
| SUPPORT GROUP LOCATIONS IN THE UK and IRELAND | |
ENGLAND Ashford, Kent Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs Basingstoke, Hampshire Bath & District Blackpool, Lancashire Bristol & District Chesterfield, Derbyshire Chichester, West Sussex Clacton, Essex Colchester, Essex Coventry, Warwickshire Crawley, West Sussex Devon (North) Doncaster Durham Eastbourne, East Sussex Enfield and Edmonton Essex (South) Exeter & District Fazakerley, Liverpool Gloucester Guildford, Surrey Hartlepool Kendal, Cumbria Lancaster, Lancashire Leeds, West Yorkshire Leicester, Leicestershire Lichfield, Staffordshire Lincoln London (Chelsea) London (Greenwich & Bexley) Manchester Newbury, Berkshire Newcastle-upon-Tyne Northampton, Northants Norwich, Norfolk | Nottingham Orpington, Kent Preston, Lancashire (St Catherine's Hospice) Preston, Lancashire (Vine House) Rotherham, South Yorkshire Scarborough, North Yorkshire Sheffield Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Taunton, Somerset Thanet & North Kent Truro, Cornwall Walsall, West Midlands West Cumbria Weymouth, Dorset Wokingham, Berkshire Worcester Worthing, West Sussex Yeovil, Somerset CHANNEL ISLANDS Jersey WALES Aberaeron, Ceredigion Cardiff Llandrindod Wells, Powys Swansea Wrexham, Clwyd SCOTLAND Aberdeen Edinburgh Stirling REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Dublin |
If you would like more details about one of the support groups, please contact the LSN office.
If you wish to start a Support Group in the UK and need information, or have started one we don't know about, please also get in touch with the LSN office.
