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  • Blog Post: Challenge the caring crisis

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    Posted 9 hours ago
    Many people could face cancer alone without the support of friends and family. But looking after a loved one with cancer can be tough. Macmillan’s campaigns team tell us more. Almost 1 million people in England help to look after a friend or family member with cancer but, too often, many miss...

  • Blog Post: Your chance to have your say in the new NHS landscape

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    Posted 11 days ago
    The recent reforms to the NHS in England are some of the biggest in history. You could hardly have missed the debate, but working out what it means for people using health services can be a little more difficult. That’s more than can be covered in one blog – but one of the biggest changes...

  • Blog Post: Making the case for free social care at the end of life

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    Posted 26 days ago
    Today we’re launching our new report Making the case for free social care at the end of life . As the title suggests, this report lays out our evidence for why social care services are so vital for those in the last weeks of their life. Vikki, who helped care for her dad, Adrian, at the end of...

  • Blog Post: Cancer’s hidden price tag

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    Posted 1 month ago
    Cancer is one of the most challenging fights a person can face. What people don’t often realise is that at this difficult time cancer patients can also struggle financially. Macmillan's campaigns team tells us more. We’d like to tell you about Mario. Mario was running an...

  • Blog Post: Stand up for working carers, read Kat’s story

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    Posted 1 month ago
    Meet Kat, the face of Macmillan’s new Cancer, who cares? campaign . Kat, Macmillan’s Local Campaigns Officer, shares her experience of working while looking after her mum, Louise. Tell us a bit about your experience caring for your mum… At the start, I wouldn’t...

  • Blog Post: Another step forward for our campaign on free social care at the end of life

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    Posted 2 months ago
    Macmillan has been campaigning to make sure more people have access to free social care in the last weeks of life so that they are able to die at home if they so choose. We know that most people with cancer at the end of their life want to spend their last weeks and days at home, in a familiar place...

  • Blog Post: Jon Snow hosts Macmillan Cancer Support Parliamentary Question Time

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    Posted 2 months ago
    Back in November 2012, Macmillan gave Cancer Voices the opportunity to ask parliamentarians questions about cancer care and services at the House of Lords. Channel 4’s Jon Snow chaired the panel, which featured Baroness Morgan, Verindra Sharma MP, Baroness Jolly and Macmillan’s very...

  • Blog Post: What’s your resolution for 2013?

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    Posted 4 months ago
    I hope you’ve all had a good start to 2013. The admin team are now all back in the office after the festive season, and it’s our resolution to keep making the Community better and easier to use. We’ve already got some work planned for this year, based on feedback from our users...

  • Blog Post: Noticeboard - September/October

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Has yoga helped you cope with your symptoms and side effects? Do you want to give feedback on your experiences with critical illness claims, or sign a petition to end a treatment postcode lottery? These are just some of the opportunities posted recently on the Community Noticeboard . The Noticeboard...

  • Blog Post: Free social care at the end of life campaign goes to Parliament

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    Posted 8 months ago
    Earlier this week, I went along to a roundtable discussion event in Parliament organised by Macmillan to talk about free social care at the end of life. This event was part of our campaign, calling for all patients at the end of life to get the social care support they need to allow them to be cared...
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