Category: Policy & Public Affairs

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

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager Cameron Miller, outlines tomorrow’s MSP debate in the Scottish Parliament

This week our Chief Scientific Officer, Dr David Jenkinson, is speaking at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on brain tumours about what risks Brexit poses

Inspired by our Community Fundraiser Shona Richardson’s personal story, Alexander Stewart MSP has tabled a debate in the Scottish Parliament on 7 December

Are they good for raising awareness or should the bubble burst? Our senior media & PR Officer Carol Dyce examines

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager, Cameron Miller, on Australia’s Cure Brain Cancer AU$100m investment fund

Jonathan Canty, our Project Information Analyst, reflects on the SNP Conference in Glasgow last week

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager Cameron Miller, reports from the Conservative Party Conference.

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager, Cameron Miller, writes from the frontline of the party conference in Brighton

A diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) diagnosis can be one of the most difficult things for a parent to hear and it can leave many families feeling helpless, powerless and desperately frustrated with the devastating prognosis

Sarah Lindsell, The Charity’s Chief Executive, has co-signed a letter urging the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, to protect England’s largest annual survey of cancer patient experience in the NHS

We believe brain tumour patients need a ‘global Britain’ after Brexit. The UK Government has published an important paper outlining its current position on scientific cooperation for when the UK leaves the European Union

Yesterday the UK Government published the recommendations of an independent review of the UK Life Sciences industry

Earlier today, the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey was published, providing an insight into the experience of 72,288 cancer patients over the age of 16 in 2016

Yesterday, Macmillan Wales and the Welsh Government published the second Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey

After seven weeks of relentless political campaigning across the UK, voters finally had their say at polling booths on Thursday, as a shock ‘hung parliament’ result emerged