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Putting the spotlight on children with cancer

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17 Jan Health

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.

05 Apr 2022 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

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08 Mar 2022 Health

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

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04 Feb 2022 Health

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?

02 Feb 2022 Coronavirus

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.

26 Jan 2022 Health

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.

12 Aug 2021 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.

21 May 2021 Health

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.

14 May 2021 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.

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29 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

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.

29 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

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.

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23 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology

Sixfold Bioscience and Medicines Discovery Catapult awarded Innovate UK grant to pursue ground-breaking project.

16 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

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.

13 Aug 2020 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.

04 May 2020 Coronavirus

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