Campaigning
Breast Cancer Care is committed to improving the treatment, support and care of people affected by breast cancer. Our campaigning work is guided and informed by the views and experiences of people living with breast cancer. Alongside our active campaigning work, Breast Cancer Care also reacts to the changing policy environment through responding to consultations by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Government.
Campaigning blog
We’re members of the Cancer Campaigning Group (CCG), a coalition of around 50 charities who are campaigning for better services for people with cancer and their families. The CCG is conducting a project looking at what ‘integrated care’ means to people living with cancer and their carers.
Integrated care means having a seamless, well co-ordinated experience, across GP,...
We’re proud to announce that our latest campaign, Support for the woman behind the cancer, has been nominated for a Body Confidence Award. The nomination is in the ‘Advertising’ category at the first Body Confidence Awards run by The Campaign for Body Confidence and presented in...
We're pleased to share with you the video advertising campaign, created by M&C Saatchi and The Mill and directed by Julia Fullerton-Battern, which illustrates that behind every breast cancer diagnosis is a real woman with emotional and practical support needs.
Please share this video with your friends and let us know what you think.
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Responding to MPs’ rejection of the House of Lords’ amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Commons today (Wednesday 1 February 2012), Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care said:
'Today’s rejection by MPs of the Lords’ amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill is a devastating blow to the cancer patients we work with who rely on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) to financially support them through their breast cancer treatment and...
The Lords have backed important amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill currently going through parliament, including rejecting government plans to effectively place a time-limit on how quickly cancer patients must recover. However, the Bill will go back to the House of Commons in February where these amendments could be overturned by MPs.
The Hardest Hit campaign (organised jointly by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) and the UK...
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