Public Affairs
Working with politicians
As Ministers, MPs and politicians from all parties
become more engaged by bowel cancer, so our work with them is
increasing. We're doing all we can to ensure that politicians are
aware of the issues that affect patients and carers and are active
on their behalf, working with us to bring about positive change and
improve patients' experience of the disease.
Campaigning on behalf of patients
As bowel cancer patients become more active about the issues
that concern them, so Bowel Cancer UK has increased its campaigning
activity on their behalf.
We are already campaigning, for example, for greater access to
treatment for patients; for greater bowel cancer awareness on
behalf of the young; for hard to reach groups to have greater
access to bowel cancer information; and for the screening programme
to roll-out more quickly.
We are keen to develop our campaigning services and to further
respond to the needs of patients and carers.
Reaching other groups
In addition to younger people, we are developing plans to target
other hard to reach groups, including ethnic minorities, mental
health service users and people living in isolated or deprived
communities.
