Local charity, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland, calls for urgent action and more equitable treatment in response to the Department of Health’s latest quarterly cancer waiting times (July to September 2022). Challenging the missed targets, Richard Spratt, CEO of Cancer Focus NI said, “We enter yet ano...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has welcomed today’s release of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry’s most up-to-date statistics on the number of breast, colorectal, oesophageal, stomach and head & neck cancers diagnosed in Northern Ireland each year during 1993 to 2020. Welcoming the report, Ric...
Leading local charity Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has responded to the Department of Health’s recent quarterly cancer waiting times (April – June 2021). Richard Spratt, CEO of Cancer Focus NI has said, “We are extremely disappointed to see that, yet again, large numbers of local cancer patients...
Recommendations to improve support for cancer patients in Northern Ireland have been published by Queen’s University Belfast and Cancer Focus NI. The report ‘Dying with Cancer – Perspectives of Bereaved Relatives and Friends’ has identified key factors influencing what enables cancer patients...
Cancer patients and charities, headed by Cancer Focus NI, held an ‘encouraging’ meeting with Health Minister Edwin Poots on July 3 2014 to discuss equal access to cancer drugs for Northern Ireland. Mr Poots said he was firmly committed to finding a speedy, politically acceptable resolut...
