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  • Blog Post: Personal, local support from Macmillan – a recommendation

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    Posted 9 days ago
    Chris Lewis is an international cancer blogger and patient from London. Here, he highlights the importance of getting support in an accessible way, as the Macmillan Mobile Cancer Information and Support Service arrives at his home city at the end of the month. Follow Chris’s blog at chris-cancercommunity...

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

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    Posted 12 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: 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: Making the case for free social care at the end of life

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    Posted 28 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: 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: Join the Energy Bill Revolution to freeze out fuel poverty

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Nearly 60% of people with cancer find that their energy bills go up after diagnosis. This isn’t surprising, considering cancer patients often feel the cold more due to their condition and treatment. Plus, they are often spending more time at home, pushing up their fuel bills. These costs can simply...

  • Blog Post: The Supporting Patient Choice project – we need your help!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Choosing the best hospital to begin your treatment can create all sorts of questions; which will offer the best care and support? Where has a better car parking area? What hospital has the highest level of cleanliness? How wonderful would it be if you could compare hospitals based on those questions...

  • Blog Post: Want to get involved?

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Are you, like many of us, still looking back over last year thinking of things you want to change for 2012 – bodies, jobs, homes, outlook on life, etc? We are, and there’s only one thing we want to change, and that’s the lives of those living with cancer. We’re so eager...
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