Provide funding to reduce waiting times for cancer patients to start treatment
- 37 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 60 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
I want the Government to put funding in place to increase resources so that all patients who have been diagnosed with cancer, including those who have been told the cancer has spread, can start treatment more quickly.
Found: I am concerned about the long waits cancer patients can experience to access treatment.
Review processes for cancer patients to receive government financial assistance
- 46 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 61 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
A cancer diagnosis is daunting and can tear families apart. A review is needed to ensure those diagnosed with late stage cancer can receive the financial support they are entitled to easily and without unnecessary bureaucracy, including very quick backdated payments where decisions are overturned.
Found: My own experience as a cancer patient is that unnecessary delay caused me and my family additional stress
Fund breast cancer screening from the age of 40
- 11,817 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 12,306 - 23 added in the past 24hrs)
Currently women are invited for a breast cancer screening mammogram between the age of 50-53. I would like the Government to provide funding to support breast cancer screening being offered from the age of 40.
The Government responsed to this petition on 20th March 2024 (View Full Response)Found: In July 2023 I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) warnings by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, what assessment they have made of the risk to cancer - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) The department is taking steps to reduce cancer diagnosis and treatment waiting times across England - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister will know that numerous complaints relating to patients with cancer that were - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) Will he agree to have an urgent uplift in the funding of cancer services in particular over the next - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con - Life peer) fully funded delivery plan has been agreed in relation to NHS England’s proposal to relocate children’s cancer - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con - Life peer) The Royal Marsden is the largest centre for clinical trials for new drugs for children with cancer in - Speech Link
3: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) I declare an interest in that I am an occasional contributor to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I am sure the Minister understands that cancer cannot be seen as an isolated disease. - Speech Link
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to entitle women aged under 40 and with a family history of breast cancer to breast cancer screening services; and for connected purposes.
Mentions:
1: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) Pharmaceuticals plans to withdraw Mobocertinib from market, what steps they are taking to ensure that lung cancer - Speech Link
2: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) in the UK that is licensed for use in exon 20 patients who have the rare subtype EGFR-positive lung cancer - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Since 2016, the cancer drugs fund, worth £340 million per year, has delivered faster access for tens - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Con - Life peer) Although the new lung cancer screening programme is welcome, I draw the Minister’s attention to a paper - Speech Link
Create a scheme to provide money to clear the debts of cancer patients
- 15 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 77 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
Cancer patients have a battle ahead of them, sometimes their biggest worry is finance. Some will have lost their jobs, and can no longer sustain themselves. Save them the pain of their families having to deal with debts. After all they deserve dignity.
Found: I would like the Government to fund a financial scheme which will cover the debts of cancer patients.
Dec. 03 2007
Source Page: Cancer reform strategy. 144 p.Found: Cancer reform strategy. 144 p.