Current campaigns
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...
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.
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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...
Breast Cancer Care volunteer and fundraiser Claire Jordan has met with her MP Chris Grayling to talk about what she does for Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Care’s campaigns. Here, Claire talks about her experience.
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Paul Burstow MP, Minister of State for Care Services, has responded to our policy briefing ...
An open letter to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith, which was signed by 30 charities, including Breast Cancer Care, clinical experts and cancer patients, featured in The Times. The letter warns that thousands of cancer patients may be plunged into poverty by...
Macmillan is calling for people to sign their petition to ‘Put the fair into welfare’.
The Welfare Reform Bill is currently passing through Parliament. This contains, amongst other...
Almost half of Scottish Parliament supports Breast Cancer Care and secondary breast cancer data collection in Scotland.
To date, a total of 61 MSPs out of the 129 in the Scottish Parliament have supported a motion lodged by Linda Fabiani MSP, which recognises the work of Breast Cancer...
Breast Cancer Care has co-signed a letter with 40 other charities asking the NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson, to endorse Principles of Integrated Care - a document of 12 principles developed by patient organisations who are members of National Voices, the health and social care...
To mark Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day Annette Brooke MP hosted an event at Westminster for Breast Cancer Care. It was attended by more than 50 guests including women affected by breast cancer, healthcare...
Today is Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day and we’re marking it by holding two campaigning events at the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh and the...
The event, In Perspective: body image after a breast cancer diagnosis has been postponed. We will update you when we have new details of the date and location.
Previous In Perspective events have looked at the issues of breast screening and the effects a breast cancer...
Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day takes place on Thursday 13 October
To mark the day we will be pressing decision-makers at an event in Westminster to make sure everyone with secondary breast cancer has access to a clinical nurse specialist with the skills...
In April of this year, we launched our ‘Keep our breast care nurses’ e-action. We asked people show their support for the role of the breast care nurse and to tell us how important their...
13 October will be Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day and to mark the day this year, we’re producing a collection of the little things that make a big difference when you’re living with secondary breast cancer.
This guide to living with the disease was the idea of a group of women with...
Future Forum, the group tasked with setting out recommendations to the Government's ‘listening exercise' during the pause in the passage of the Health and Social...
Today on the newsblog, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care, Jane Hatfield, shares some exciting campaigning news...
'Following many years of campaigning by people with secondary breast cancer and Breast Cancer Care...
The Hardest Hit campaign, run by the Disability Benefits Consortium and the United Kingdom’s Disabled People's Council is holding a march on 11 May in London. Thousands of disabled people as well as family and friends will be marching to express their concerns about the cuts threatening benefits...
Breast Cancer Care has a wide network of healthcare professionals, the majority of whom are breast care nurses. We have been hearing more and more often that breast care nurses (also known as clinical nurse specialists) are being forced to limit the...
On 27 January, the Policy and Campaigns team held the second in a new series of events that brings together people working in health policy with people affected by breast cancer to discuss key breast cancer issues.
Breast cancer and low-income households: In Perspective focussed on the...
Today saw the publication of the Department of Health (DH) cancer strategy, Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer.
Thanks to the dedication of the Secondary...
Annette Brook MP, who spoke at the Westminster event on secondary breast cancer last week, has asked a question in Prime Minister's Questions on our behalf.
She asked David Cameron to meet with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for breast cancer and reps from the main...
