Throughout this Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has been speaking with MLAs, MPs, and more about how we can better support the 1,490 women projected to face a breast cancer diagnosis each year. With 1 in 8 local women projected to face breast cancer in their lifetime, an...
In keeping with the charity’s first strategic objective, “To Be Your Local Cancer Voice,” Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has submitted a response to the consultation for the Draft Programme for Government 2024-2027. Focusing on Priorities 3 (“Cut Health Waiting Times”) a...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has submitted a response to the NI consultation on safe and effective staffing legislation. The consultation seeks views on whether the Department of Health should be legally required to apply evidence-based strategic workforce planning, to use a common staffing methodo...
This Saturday at the SDLP Annual Conference, MPs, MLAs, and Councillors pledged to support cancer prevention and the resourcing of the NI Cancer Strategy. Cancer Focus Northern Ireland attended the conference to speak with elected officials about the challenges cancer patients face and to urge actio...
To help raise awareness of breast cancer this October, several Councils have lit up their buildings pink at the start of this Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Antrim and Newtownabbey, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Lisburn and Castlereagh, and Mid Ulster Counci...
