Category: Policy & Public Affairs

Torrin Wilkins – Director and Founder of Centre Think Tank – has written about how the brain tumour community is being let down and how we can improve outcomes for them.

We met with Neil Gray – the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in Scotland – to discuss strategies for speeding up brain tumour diagnosis in Scotland.

We explore how the key talking points from the Labour Party Annual Conference 2024 could impact the brain tumour community.

What is the Darzi report and what does it reveal about brain tumour diagnosis, treatment and care in England?

The Brain Tumour Charity alongside Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce colleagues met with the Cabinet Secretary for Health in Scotland to discuss the delivery of the Scottish Cancer Strategy

We’re excited to announce a new Chair of our Scottish Steering Committee and share his answers to some of our introductory questions

Following the changes in government after the General Election, we’ve been collaborating across the sector to bring about much-needed change for the brain tumour community.

We explore how Labour winning the General Election 2024 could affect the momentum for our National Brain Tumour Strategy campaign.

We’ve taken a close look at the pledges made in the Labour Party manifesto and what they could mean for people affected by a brain tumour.

We’ve taken a close look at the pledges made in the Conservative manifesto and what they could mean for people affected by a brain tumour.

We’ve taken a deep dive into the pledges made in the Liberal Democrat manifesto and what they could mean for the brain tumour community.

What happened to the £40m of Government funding that was committed to research into brain tumours in 2018?

More than 52,000 of you joined our call for a National Brain Tumour Strategy and now Parliamentarians across the political spectrum have added their support.

Our open letter to the Government calling for a National Brain Tumour Strategy has been a huge success – but we’re not slowing down yet!

Meet Simon and Ella and learn about why Ella believes a National Brain Tumour Strategy is a No Brainer!

This Brain Tumour Awareness Month we held three events in the parliaments of Scotland, Wales and Westminster. Highlighting our new It’s a No Brainer campaign and enabling volunteers to share their experiences with policymakers.

Our open letter now has 40,000 signatures. But we’re not done yet! There’s still time to sign it before we close the open letter on 15 April.

On 29 February, we stood outside Westminster alongside 34 members of the brain tumour community to launch our campaign calling for a National Brain Tumour Strategy. Read on to find out why.

We’re marking World Cancer Day by looking at the ways that existing strategies for tackling cancer can inadvertently exclude the brain tumour community.

Following Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day, our advocates at the events share their experience of attending and what they would like to see happen next.

An update from our Policy and Campaigns team following an exciting week in Scotland.

An update on the Scottish Steering Committee’s new objectives and next steps.

CRUK has just launched a manifesto with five priority actions for the next government. We take a look at how they align with the needs of the brain tumour community.

We recently attended the NICE 2023 conference and share some of the key takeaways we gathered from the event.