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February 2010

Response to Gordon Brown's announcement that every cancer patient is to have access to a home nurse within five years

Description: Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, responds to the announcement from Prime Minister Gordon Brown that every cancer patient is to have access to a home nurse in the next five years.
Date:: Tuesday 9th February 2010

Macmillan's new financial help booklets

Description: Macmillan has produced two new resources to help people affected by cancer manage their finances.
Date:: Tuesday 2nd February 2010

January 2010

Response to the call for every patient nearing the end of life to receive 24/7 care

Description: Ciaran Devane, Chief Executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, gives his response to a report from The King's Fund calling for every patient nearing end of life to be given access to 24/7 care.
Date:: Wednesday 27th January 2010

Macmillan responds to the new energy bill announced in the Queen's Speech

Description: Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns at Macmillan Cancer Support, responds to the new energy bill announcement.
Date:: Tuesday 26th January 2010

Macmillan's response to NICE decision on liver cancer drug

Description: Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns at Macmillan Cancer Support, on the NICE decision on liver cancer drug, sorafenib.
Date:: Tuesday 26th January 2010

Cancer patients pay the price to keep warm

Description: With temperatures set to plummet below freezing across the UK this week, leading cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support is warning that keeping warm will be even harder for cancer patients undergoing treatment, as they are already twice as likely to fall into fuel poverty as the general population.
Date:: Tuesday 26th January 2010

A-listers mouth off about men for Macmillan

Description: Ray Winstone, Ricky Gervais, Marco Pierre White, and Trevor Nelson are just some of the celebrities sharing their biggest 'clangers' in a humorous new video to support Macmillan Cancer Support's Cancertalk Week, 18-24 January.
Date:: Monday 18th January 2010

Cancer: no longer simply a question of life or death

Description: Of the two million people living with cancer in the UK, over 1.2 million were diagnosed over five years ago. Many of these long term cancer survivors are suffering needlessly and in silence, according to leading cancer charity, Macmillan Cancer Support.
Date:: Wednesday 6th January 2010

Give cruel car parking charges the boot from England

Description: A new online game is encouraging people to outwit Warden Gordon to stop him putting hefty parking tickets on to cancer patients' cars.
Date:: Tuesday 5th January 2010

Macmillan Cancer Support's response to the consultation on hospital car parking charges announced by Health Secretary Andy Burnham on 29 December 2009

Description: Mike Hobday, Head of Policy at Macmillan Cancer Support comments on the consultation on car parking in England.
Date:: Monday 4th January 2010

Public want free hospital parking for cancer patients in England

Description: To mark the first anniversary of free hospital parking in Scotland a new poll finds that eight out of ten people say they want the next Government to abolish hospital parking charges in England for patients with long term conditions like cancer, according to leading cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support.
Date:: Monday 4th January 2010

December 2009

Cold cancer patients forced back to bed this Christmas

Description: One in four cancer patients in the UK will be forced back to bed this Christmas because they cannot afford to put the heating on and struggle with high fuel bills, warns leading cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support.
Date:: Monday 21st December 2009

All I want for Christmas is…

Description: DJ Neil Fox to serenade Selfridges shoppers in bid to raise £5k for Macmillan Cancer Support
Date:: Wednesday 9th December 2009

Macmillan slams 'cruel' back to work tests for terminally ill cancer patients

Description: Terminally ill cancer patients, and people undergoing chemotherapy, are being threatened with benefit cuts if they do not attend back-to-work interviews, warn leading charities, Macmillan Cancer Support and Citizens Advice.
Date:: Monday 7th December 2009

December 4 is national Carers Rights Day

Description: The tenth annual Carers Rights Day , organised by Carers UK , will be held on December 4. The focus of the 2009 Carers Rights Day is 'Caring for your income and pension'.
Date:: Wednesday 2nd December 2009

November 2009

Celebrities reveal their dream Christmas stocking fillers

Description: Amanda Holden has joined superstars Dita Von Teese, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emma Thompson, Lily Cole and Jo Wood in sharing her dream Christmas Stocking, which will be auctioned off to help raise £100,000 at Macmillan's Celebrity Stocking Auction on 2 December in London.
Date:: Wednesday 25th November 2009

Macmillan teams up with TONI &GUY to offer hair advice to those affected by cancer

Description: Macmillan is extremely excited to be working with TONI &GUY, one of the world's most established hairdressing brands, to launch Strength in Style, a scheme to help improve the quality of hair care on the high street to men, women and children affected by cancer.
Date:: Thursday 19th November 2009

Mouth Cancer Awareness Week 2009

Description: It's Mouth Cancer Awareness Week 2009, so why not take this opportunity to find out what you can do to lower your risk of developing head or neck cancer.
Date:: Monday 16th November 2009

Carers a priority for swine flu vaccination

Description: Gillian Merron MP, Public Health Minister has vowed to make carers a priority for vaccination against H1N1 swine flu in England.
Date:: Friday 13th November 2009

Carers Poverty Charter reaches Number 10

Description: A delegation of Carers UK members has been to 10 Downing Street to deliver the Carers Poverty Charter, which calls for urgent action to improve carer finances.
Date:: Friday 13th November 2009

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