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...
Breast cancer awareness month is here again and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland are continuing to champion local women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer this October during one of the most difficult and stressful times in any woman’s life. The local charity’s Go Pink campaign is in full swing...
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...
To mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the All-Party Group on Cancer of the Northern Ireland Assembly met on the 17th of September 2024 to discuss Cancer in Children and Young People. It was the first APG meeting of the 2024-2025 Assembly year. The APG featured a collaborative presentation from C...
