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  • Blog Post: Two years until the General Election: What should Macmillan be asking the next Government to do?

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    Posted 15 days ago
    If you have a few moments, I would like to take you back in time to May of 2010. An austere voice announces another party political broadcast. Activists push leaflets through our doors and we watch the UK’s first televised election debates. There is a lingering smell of an expenses scandal...

  • 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: 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...

  • Blog Post: Social care reform - significant progress

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    Posted 10 months ago
    Yesterday, the government published the long-awaited social care white paper . And here at Macmillan we were really pleased that, in it, they recognised the importance of free social care for those at the end of life. We want all people with cancer to have the choice to die at home surrounded by...

  • Blog Post: Campaign blow as MPs vote against exempting cancer patients from ESA time limit.

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    In every campaign there are highs and lows. Sadly, this week has been one of the low points in the Welfare Reform Campaign. On Wednesday, MPs threw out an amendment from the House of Lords which would have exempted cancer patients from the government’s proposal to time limit Employment and Support...

  • Blog Post: We're not campaigning on welfare reform alone!

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Good campaigning is all about good partnerships. It’s for this reason that we got together last week with 30 other charities, 60 cancer specialists as well as academics, welfare experts and patients. We sent a letter to the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith MP, raising our concerns...

  • Blog Post: Put the fair into welfare - campaign update

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on our welfare reform campaign and thank you all for your efforts to help us in our work at the Liberal Democrat Party conference. As you may be aware the Liberal Democrat conference voted on whether their party should oppose the Government's plan to take away...

  • Blog Post: Put the fair into welfare: a campaign update

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    I'm Alessandro, the Public Affairs intern at Macmillan. I’ve been here for just over a month and I’ve been working hard along the rest of the team on our ‘ Put the fair into welfare ’ campaign to make sure that people with cancer continue to get the critical financial...

  • Blog Post: Putting the Fair into Welfare: Webchat on Wednesday 15th June

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hello everyone, I'm sure that you are aware of our Welfare Reform Campaign , and hopefully you have taken action and emailed your MP using our handy pre-filled in form or submitted your own story via AudioBoo. If not there’s still time, just click here to take action. If you want to know...

  • Blog Post: Will your MP speak out against benefit cuts for cancer patients?

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    It’s a really exciting time at Macmillan Campaigns HQ: the Welfare Reform Bill is about to go into report stage, and this is our final chance to influence MPs to change the bill before it moves to the House of Lords. We need your help to put the fair into welfare and make sure that those affected...
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