Policy response
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 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...
Paul Burstow MP, Minister of State for Care Services, has responded to our policy briefing ...
Breast Cancer Care reacts to the House of Lords’ defeat of proposed amendments to Employment Support Allowance for people with cancer.
Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care said:
'We applaud peers for opposing the plans to cut Employment...
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...
Breast Cancer Care, along with 30 of the UK’s leading cancer charities, clinical experts and cancer patients, has signed an open letter to Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, raising concerns about the impact the Welfare Reform Bill will have on cancer...
Breast Cancer Care has closely followed the discussions concerning equality and the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 as the Bill will potentially have a significant impact on the care of people with breast cancer. This briefing clarifies our position by outlining our concerns and...
Breast Cancer Care has been engaging with the NHS reform agenda because of its potentially huge impact on people affected by breast cancer, along with all NHS users. As the biggest reform package to the NHS since...
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...
Improving outcomes and experiences for older women with breast cancer
Policy briefing launch reception
Thursday 17 November 2011, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Breast Cancer Care Central Office
5-13 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 ONS...
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...
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...
The Liberal Democrats are currently holding their annual party conference, where they have decided to support a motion calling on the Government to scrap plans to time-limit the Employment and Support...
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 Care Bill, have now published their report. Some of their recommendations included:
- retaining the Health Secretary as the...
Breast Cancer Care would like to invite you to:
In Perspective: Body image after a breast cancer diagnosis
Thursday 3 November, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Convocation Hall, Church House, London
Our ‘In Perspective’ events bring together people working in health policy with people...
Back in March, we, along with 30 other cancer charities, wrote to Iain Duncan-Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to outline our grave concerns about the proposed welfare reforms and their impact on cancer patients. This included the time-limiting of contributory ESA to a year,...
Government Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, last night announced guaranteed funding for cancer networks in a move welcomed by cancer campaigners.
The decision came just a week after the Government announced a 'pause' in their controversial Health and Social Care Bill, which aims to...
The National Cancer Experience Survey 2010 measures the satisfaction of cancer patients with the level of care they received.
Results indicate that while cancer inpatients were significantly more satisfied with their care in hospital than inpatients generally, worse experiences were...
Breast Cancer Care, along with 29 other cancer charities, has written an open letter to the secretary of state for work and pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, to urge him to reconsider his welfare reform plans that...
Breast Cancer Care would like to invite you to:
‘Lesbian and bisexual women and breast cancer’
Wednesday 23 March, 9-10am
Breast Cancer Care invites you to a breakfast launch of its new briefing ‘Lesbian and bisexual women and breast cancer.’ We have an ongoing commitment to...
We raise our concerns about the proposed regional system that could increase the likelihood of postcode lotteries developing in access to drugs. We advocate for a national approach to ensure everyone is treated the same, regardless of where they live. If this were not to happen we suggest ways...
Today saw the publication of the Department of Health (DH) cancer strategy, Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer.
Thanks to the dedication of the ...
Members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer1 met with the Prime Minister and Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow MP, last week to discuss issues around breast cancer.
Co-Chairs of the Group, Annette Brooke, MP and Steve Brine, MP joined representatives from...
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