Macmillan warns don't retreat on health UK

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology
Article Date: 12 Jul 2004 - 17:00 PDT


Commenting on today's UK Comprehensive Spending Review, Peter Cardy, Chief Executive, Macmillan Cancer Relief, said: "Of course it is important that the Government invests in defence but equally there should be no retreat on health.

One of the great advances of the last few years has been the increased contribution that users of cancer services have been empowered to make through the Cancer Partnership Project.

This goes to the heart of ensuring patient choice is more than just rhetoric. Real progress has been made in building better services in partnership with people affected by cancer. It is vital that the significant gains to both the NHS and patients, at minimal cost to the taxpayer, are not lost. We urge the Government to invest sustained political will and funding to defend the welcome progress made."

Notes to Editors:

Macmillan Cancer Relief helps people who are living with cancer. Each and every day 741 people in the UK are told they have cancer. There are now over a million people living with cancer, and four in ten will receive a cancer diagnosis during their lifetime.

For cancer information and support, contact the Macmillan CancerLine (Monday ? Friday, 9.00am ? 6.00pm) by freephone: 0808 808 2020, textphone: 0808 808 0121 or email: cancerline@macmillan.org.uk; or log on to

http://www.macmillan.org.uk.

For further information, please contact:
Julia Anderson, Macmillan Cancer Relief Press Office, 020 7840 7803,
janderson@macmillan.org.uk, Out of hours 07801 307 068

- - - Julia Anderson
Press Officer
Macmillan Cancer Relief
89 Albert Embankment
London, SE1 7UQ
Tel: 020 7840 7803
Fax: 020 7840 4886

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