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Archive for category: Equal Access
07
October
2014

Health Minister receives petition

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Health Minister Jim Wells has received a 24,000 strong petition supporting Cancer Focus NI’s call for equal access to cancer drugs for local patients. A wheelbarrow load of signatures was delivered by our Chief Executive Roisin Foster and cancer patients Vera Sanderson and Allister Murphy on t...

07
October
2014

Minister accepts Equal Access petition

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Health Minister Jim Wells today  (7th October 2014) accepted a petition in support of Cancer Focus NI’s Equal Access Campaign. The campaign calls for funding to provide access to cancer drugs similar to that provided for by the English Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). Health Minister Jim Wells accepts the C...

07
October
2014

John’s equal access story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer patient John McAllister (57), from Belfast, is delighted with the Cancer Focus NI campaign calling for equal access to cancer drugs for local patients. The father of five was told three-and-a-half years ago that he was seriously ill with cancer, yet, with the help of life-prolonging drugs, ha...