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  • Blue Badges for parking- your views

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello everyone- several people have mentioned to the campaigns team that being able to get a temporary blue badge for parking would be of real benefit for them at certain times during their treatment. This would enable patients in pain and discomfort to park in much more easily accessible parking spaces. Currently the blue badge system is for people with permanent mobility problems rather than temporary.

    We are interested…

  • Admin blog: To All Our Members With Love!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello Everyone,

    No matter the weather (I mean that litterally!), everyone on this site shows both new and old members loads of love and support,so we wanted to show our appreciation in return.

    As we really value your efforts to make this the warmest community online we are dedicating these five beautiful love songs to all for Valentines weekend.

    After a lot of umming and arrhing between us, we have narrowed them…

  • Fuel poverty – Macmillan lobbies parliament

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I guess I should start with an introduction as this is my first blog post: I’m Jeremy and I work in the campaigns, policy and public affairs team.
    I had heard of Macmillan’s campaign to freeze out fuel poverty before I had even started. For a while now Macmillan has been drawing attention to the fact that many people with cancer fall into fuel poverty because of their illness. Evidence shows that people living…
  • Hospital car parking campaign - your help is needed.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    You may have seen our hospital car parking campaign in the news over the last few weeks and we need your help to make the government listen. We have a game for you to play - Warden Brown - please play the game, sign our pledge and forward this on to friends, family and colleagues. The more support we get the more persuasive we can be. With your help our campaign has really made headway and this is a great opportunity…

  • Tackling cancer inequalities – what now?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Yesterday the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer launched a report highlighting appalling inequalities in the treatment and care of different cancer patients across the country.
    The report says that older people with cancer often have less intensive and less radical treatment than younger people.  And rather than that being because a clinician has assessed their situation and made a medical decision not to treat…