Category: Policy & Public Affairs

We have joined forces with other leading charities to form The Children and Young People Cancer Coalition and highlight areas where we believe progress is needed.

Following Tessa Jowell’s death, the government has tonight pledged its renewed commitment to research into brain tumours

Our thoughts today are first and foremost with Tessa Jowell’s family, who have lost someone irreplaceable and loved beyond measure.

Tessa Jowell’s decision to share her brain tumour diagnosis in September last year was a watershed moment for thousands of people whose lives have been affected by the disease.

Grace Latter writes about the Young Ambassadors raising issues at Parliament on Tuesday

An emotional debate covering two important issues that Baroness Jowell has been campaigning on since her diagnosis, data and adaptive clinical trials.

The debate follows a landmark summit on brain tumours in London in February, triggered by Baroness Tessa Jowell’s experience following her own diagnosis last year

Our Policy & Public affairs Manager Cameron Miller, outlines the progress made

Miles Briggs MSP is to chair a roundtable discussion on brain tumours in the Scottish Parliament, bringing together researchers, clinicians, patients and carers with the goal of improving outcomes for brain tumour patients in Scotland.

This week we held a drop-in event in Parliament for MPs. The event was a huge success, with around 40 MPs attending.

People living with a brain tumour need better access to financial help, we’ll tell MPs at a meeting today

The Government must make progress and send a clear message to patients that there will be no delay in access to these life-saving cancer drugs after we leave the European Union

Every family affected by a brain tumour was promised “action not words” today at a landmark meeting in the battle to defeat brain tumours

The Government has today called for greater innovation in brain tumour research, as it publishes a landmark review into brain cancer research in the UK

We will voice the hope and determination of everyone in our community today when we join government ministers, fellow campaigners and researchers at a crucial meeting today in the battle against brain tumours

Our Chief Executive, Sarah Lindsell, and our Chief Scientific Officer, David Jenkinson, will be among global brain tumour experts and campaigners meeting government ministers later this month to discuss progress against brain tumours

We were proud to stand alongside some of our inspirational supporters at the House of Commons today to press for better UK-wide services for children with life-limiting illnesses

Former Cabinet minister Tessa Jowell led a debate in the House of Lords yesterday where she asked the Government to support her call for an acceleration of new cancer treatments and improvements in patient care

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager Cameron Miller, reflects of Tessa Jowell’s moving House of Lords debate today

Former cabinet Minister Tessa Jowell appeared on the Today programme this morning talking about her brain tumour diagnosis and need for more research into the disease

Former cabinet Minister Tessa Jowell will speak out for the first time later this week about her brain tumour diagnosis as she spearheads a public debate about cancer treatments and life expectancy

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager Cameron Miller outlines why 2017 was a fantastic year for the Policy Team at The Brain Tumour Charity

Yesterday, along with partners of the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce, we met with Government Minister Steve Brine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health)

On Thursday Alexander Stewart MSP led a debate in the Scottish Parliament on Brain Tumour Awareness in Scotland, as several MSPs expressed their support for action to raise greater awareness of the disease