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A National Brain Tumour Strategy can’t wait Partner content
Health
By The Brain Tumour Charity
A National Brain Tumour Strategy can’t wait
Too often the brain tumour community has been left behind by healthcare policy. With the government’s consultation on the 10 Year Health Plan underway, it’s time to do better for people diagnosed with brain tumours
Putting the spotlight on children with cancer Partner content
Health
By Great Ormond Street Hospital
Putting the spotlight on children with cancer
The word ‘cancer’ is one that nobody wants to hear, particularly in relation to a child. But for thousands of families across the UK, it is now their reality.
Cancer Charities Warn Government Is Failing To Address Chronic NHS Staff Shortages
Health
Cancer Charities Warn Government Is Failing To Address Chronic NHS Staff Shortages
MPs have warned that the NHS is not on track to meet the NHS Long Term plan target to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 or 2 by 2028, with chronic cancer workforce shortages meaning the UK is now performing behind other comparable countries for cancer outcomes.
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women Partner content
Health
By Hologic
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women
We must make cancer screening accessible to all women in the UK by ensuring preventative healthcare is a priority.
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer Partner content
Health
By Policy@Manchester
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer
Financial and health inequalities are seeing cancer care in the most deprived regions of the UK fall behind – so how can we level up prevention, diagnosis, and treatment?
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
Coronavirus
By John Baron MP
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
It is vital the NHS strains every sinew to detect cancers that may have gone undiagnosed during the pandemic.
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
Health
By Barbara Keeley MP
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
The Health and Social Care Select Committee has just held the last of its evidence sessions in its current inquiry into cancer services in England.
NHS Backlog Hits A Record High With 5.45 Million People Waiting For Routine Treatment
Coronavirus
NHS Backlog Hits A Record High With 5.45 Million People Waiting For Routine Treatment
New figures released by NHS England today show 5.45 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of June, the highest number since records began in 2007.
Action is needed to tackle the desperate situation facing cancer services
Health
By Sharon Hodgson MP
Action is needed to tackle the desperate situation facing cancer services
The government needs a plan to ensure the long-term resuscitation of the cancer workforce and maintain the standards of care that people deserve nationwide.
Labour MP Wes Streeting To Undergo Treatment For Kidney Cancer
Political parties
Labour MP Wes Streeting To Undergo Treatment For Kidney Cancer
Labour MP Wes Streeting has said he will be taking time off work for treatment after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in April.
Focusing on Blood Cancer Post-Covid-19 Partner content
Coronavirus
By Pfizer
Focusing on Blood Cancer Post-Covid-19
We are living in difficult times, and there are many competing challenges for the NHS at present, but we must keep cancer as a priority.
Now more than ever, we need speedier diagnoses for blood cancer
Coronavirus
By Henry Smith MP
Now more than ever, we need speedier diagnoses for blood cancer
There has never been a year in which Blood Cancer Awareness Month has been more important.
Partner content
Coronavirus
By Medicines Discovery Catapult
Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology
Sixfold Bioscience and Medicines Discovery Catapult awarded Innovate UK grant to pursue ground-breaking project.
Patient backlog threatens to jeopardise the ambitious NHS long-term plan
Coronavirus
By Lord Hunt
Patient backlog threatens to jeopardise the ambitious NHS long-term plan
Already, two million people are waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment. The NHS has a major task to get normal services back on track, let alone implement the long-term plan.
NHS facing ‘alarming backlog’ after almost two million patients wait longer than 18 weeks for routine hospital treatment in a single month
Coronavirus
NHS facing ‘alarming backlog’ after almost two million patients wait longer than 18 weeks for routine hospital treatment in a single month
Almost two million patients waited longer than 18 weeks for routine hospital treatment in June, the latest NHS figures show.
Radiotherapy is a vital treatment that can reduce unnecessary cancer deaths during the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus
By Tim Farron MP
Radiotherapy is a vital treatment that can reduce unnecessary cancer deaths during the coronavirus pandemic
A radiotherapy taskforce led by a government minister will save ‘collateral’ cancer lives from the Covid-19 pandemic