All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer
Disclaimer - From 30 May 2024, the APPG on Cancer will cease to exist and this page will not be updated. This is because during the Dissolution period there are no MPs and APPGs.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC) aims to keep cancer on the political agenda. It monitors the implementation of government initiatives and provides briefings to parliamentarians. It also ensures policy-making is evidence-based and patient-centred.
About the APPGC
The APPGC was founded in 1998 to keep cancer at the top of the political agenda. It aims to ensure that policy-making remains patient-centred.
The group brings together MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum to debate key issues, and campaign together to improve cancer services.
The APPGC holds regular meetings and campaigns on a number of vital issues including:
- patient experience
- early diagnosis
- rarer cancers
- living with and beyond cancer.
In 2015, we successfully campaigned for Clinical Commissioning Groups to be held to account on improving their one year cancer survival rates.
The APPGC has held 2 short inquiries into the progress of the Cancer Strategy. The most recent of these looked at progress as it reaches the halfway stage.
You can read the APPGC’s findings and recommendations in the report ‘Progress of the England Cancer Strategy: Delivering outcomes by 2020?’.
Find out more about the APPGC
The Secretariat
The Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer is provided by Macmillan Cancer Support and supported by a stakeholder group of organisations.
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These include
- Alcohol Health Alliance
- Anthony Nolan
- Bloodwise
- Bowel Cancer UK
- Brain Tumour Research
- Breast Cancer Care
- Breast Cancer Now
- Cancer Research UK
- Cancer52
- Independent Cancer Patient Voices
- Pancreatic Cancer UK
- Prostate Cancer UK
- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
- Sarcoma UK
- Target Ovarian Cancer
- Teenage Cancer Trust
- Young Lives vs Cancer.
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