Posted on: 7 December 2017
Professor Sean Duffy, who heads our West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance, took part in the keynote question and answer session at this week’s Britain Against Cancer Conference, organised by Macmillan Cancer Support on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC).
The APPGC aims to be the voice in Parliament of cancer patients and their families, and campaigns on multiple issues such as early diagnosis, workforce, rarer cancers and patient experience. On Tuesday, it published its inquiry report into the progress of the 2020 Cancer Strategy for England.
Sean Joined Jo Lenaghan, Director of Strategy with Health Education England; Dr Afsana Safa, GP for NHS Central London Westminster CCG and patient advocate Jo Taylor on the main stage for a panel discussion on the report, chaired by Nick Robinson of the BBC Today programme, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015.
In addition, The Cancer Alliance held its first ‘communities of practice’ event this week, sharing ideas, learning and good practice around multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres, part of plans to transform early diagnosis and make more cancers curable. Existing national pilots in Leeds and Airedale were joined by colleagues from Bradford, Harrogate and Mid Yorkshire who have been successful in their bids to the Alliance Capacity for System Change Fund.