News
20
March
2015

Support access to drugs meetings

Cancer Focus NI is urging local people to attend their local public meeting to voice their opinions on how to improve access to specialist drugs. The DHSSPS has organised a series of meetings across Northern Ireland (details below) intended to provide an opportunity for public discussion of the rece...

11
March
2015

Teen ‘proud to be a quitter’

Teenager Rachel Armstrong joined forces with Cancer Focus NI on No Smoking Day, March 11, to urge smokers to kick the habit. The 15-year-old, who started smoking when she was just 10, says she is proud to be a quitter. “I had a few older friends who smoked and that where I got my first cigarette. So...

06
March
2015

Wine Inns raises £13,877 for us

Wine Inn employees and customers have raised a magnificent £13,877 during a very successful one year corporate partnership with local cancer charity, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Maeve Colgan, Head of Income Generation at Cancer Focus NI, said: “We would like to say a massive thank you to all the...

17
February
2015

Drugs fund report welcomed

Proposed changes to NI’s current drug approval process have been welcomed by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Following the charity’s Equal Access campaign for the same access to cancer drugs for Northern Ireland patients as those living in England, Health Minister Jim Wells announced a review in May...

02
February
2015

Minister’s go ahead on plain packs 

Local cancer charity Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is delighted by the Health Minister’s announcement to support the introduction of standardised cigarette packaging in Northern Ireland. Today the Health Minister Jim Wells confirmed that Northern Ireland will be included in UK-wide regulations on st...