Macmillan Campaigns

  • Hospital car parking - campaign update

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Earlier this year, under the previous Government, the Department of Health issued a consultation looking into who should be exempt from hospital car parking charges in England.  After months of everything being up in the air following the General Election, the new government has told us they're going to respond to this consultation in September. 

     

    Andrew Lansley, the new Secretary of State for Health, doesn't want…

  • Fight for 24/7 community nursing

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    During the general election, we asked you to Vote Cancer Support and contact your prospective parliamentary candidates about our three campaign calls – all designed to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. The response was phenomenal: more than 6,600 people voted. 903 candidates signed up, of which 163 became MPs. This represents 25% of parliamentarians showing support for the campaign.
     
    But we still…
  • Life after the election......

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    With less than 24 hours to go until the polling booths open there is not long to wait to find out the outcome of an election where how to improve cancer outcomes has been a major source of debate. All the parties have made key pledges as to how they will set about achieving this goal.

    It is great that improving cancer outcomes has been such a big issue and that has been in part down to the campaigning efforts of Macmillan…

  • Do you use social care services?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    You may have seen the political parties arguing about the future of social care in England over the last few weeks.  They’ve been fighting about the big ideas and changes that need to be made to social care services in this country to meet the needs of an ageing population.  Macmillan has previously responded to national consultations about the big changes that need to be made – calling for the social care needs…
  • Vote cancer support - fairer access to drugs

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Science is continually creating more and better treatments for cancer.  These treatments are leading to more people living longer and in many cases making a full recovery from the disease.  However new treatments can only bring benefits if they are freely available on the NHS.  We are concerned that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), the body responsible for deciding which treatments are cost-effective…