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| All Party Govt Group |
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ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON CANCER The All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC) was founded in 1998 to keep cancer at the top of the political agenda, and to ensure that policy-making remains patient-centred. The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) brings together MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum to debate key issues and campaign together to improve cancer services. The APPG on Cancer holds regular meetings and has recently discussed vital issues such as the NHS cancer plan, professional and financial side effects of cancer, genetics, public health, and cancer and private health care, attracting an impressive range of speakers and a wide audience of MPs and cancer organisations. In 2004 the APPG conducted a parliamentary inquiry into the future of cancer services in <country-region><place>England which looked at centralism and localism in the NHS and produced recommendations for government action. Throughout 2006 and beyond, the APPG will be campaigning for its New Vision for Cancer, to carry on the momentum established by the first Cancer Plan and to reflect the changing cancer environment. The New Vision for Cancer outlines a radical new approach to tackling inequalities in cancer services and calls for a new, comprehensive, cross-departmental strategy for dealing with cancer in the 21st century. The work of the New Vision for Cancer will feed into the Cancer Reform Strategy currently being designed by the Department of Health and other Government policy. The APPG’s landmark event is the annual Britain Against Cancer conference. This event is a unique opportunity to bring together everyone who has an interest in improving cancer services in the <country-region><place>UK . The APPGC is currently chaired by John Baron MP "A new vision for Cancer" (2006)
Forword of Cancer Care 2008 by John Baron MP Chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Cancer During 2009, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer conducted a wide-ranging inquiry into cancer inequalities, which uncovered evidence of unacceptable inequalities in both the experience and the outcomes of cancer patients.
The Report of the Inquiry, published at our annual Britain Against Cancer conference in December 2009, identified eight priority actions which we hope will make a considerable difference in both narrowing the gap in survival rates between different groups and improving cancer outcomes for all.
Over the coming months, the APPGC wants to work in partnership with charities, Primary Care Trusts, Government and the wider cancer community to continue to push for these recommendations to be implemented. In particular we hope to make progress towards the creation of a new one-year survival indicator for all cancers and all age groups, which we believe will encourage earlier diagnosis and help to sharpen the focus on measuring outcomes.
The APPGC will also promote action to improve the experiences of cancer patients throughout their cancer journeys, which is all too often not what it should be. Organisations like Cancer Care, providing the information cancer patients need to make the right choices about their treatment, have a critical role to play in achieving this goal.
We must all work together to improve cancer care and services across the country and give support to those who need it most. I look forward to working with Cancer Care in the year ahead.
John Baron MP |
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