Aftercare for cancer patients is not good enough with many patients being left without adequate support.

That’s according to a joint report by the Department of Health and Macmillan Cancer support.

They’ve said services need to be improved so that cancer sufferers are not left alone to deal with the emotional and financial fall out of having cancer.

But then Pauline Catto from Houghton-le-Spring got in touch to tell me a very different story: