Save the date! 26 April 2023 is our 2nd National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day. Join us to show support and appreciation for our workforce, as we celebrate and raise awareness of the role and thank all our Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists for all the amazing work they do.

We are supporting Bowel Cancer UK this Bowel Cancer Awareness Month to ensure more people #KnowTheHigh5 symptoms of bowel cancer. So, what should you look out for?

We are continuing to promote the NHS national Quality of Life Survey, which patients receive around 18-months after their diagnosis. We are doing all we can to encourage people to complete the survey.

The Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey informs how the NHS delivers cancer services with the aim to radically improve the outcomes for children and young people affected by cancer. 

Thanks to the tireless work of our GPs, nurses, clinicians and cancer teams across north east London, we are catching more cancers earlier than ever before.

Following World Cancer Day and as part of a national cancer awareness campaign, an NHS double-decker bus visited Newham to help raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer.

In a new ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaign that is the first of its kind nationally, NHS England is encouraging people who have been sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit to complete the test.

North East London Cancer Alliance, in partnership with Barts Health and Barts Charity, has formally launched a new MRI scanner at the Mile End Early Diagnosis Centre.

Saturday 4 February is World Cancer Day. This year’s theme is ‘Close the Care Gap’, part of a three-year campaign to reduce inequalities, something close to our hearts in north east London. What can you do to help? Here are a few ideas: