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Research/Surveys/Petitions

Parking adds to misery of cancer treatment

March 10, 2010

Wikipedia

Which? Report says Parking is a battle at NHS hospital car parks
Parking at NHS hospitals is too often a nightmare, new Which? research has found.
Problems finding a space, cost and battling confusing payment systems are just some of the difficulties facing people using hospital car parks.  All when they are probably worried over on-going [...]

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Westminster Fly-In

February 4, 2010

What happens when determined Breakthrough Breast Cancer supporters meet their MPs?
Things get done!
See and hear the story in this video, and copy examples for your own campaign
Next Fly-In is October 18th – 19th, 2010 in London.  Why London?
Because one of the main successes of the campaign is that Breakthrough offers a venue less than 100 [...]

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Macmillan’s surveys provide useful statistics, so they are worth filling in

February 2, 2010

Macmillan has campaigned  successfully for free prescriptions for cancr patients, then went in with guns blazing to campaign for winter fuel payments.  So when they tackle the Government they make sure they have solid backing.
Now they need some solid statistics from cancer patients for their latest survey.  As they say  “to help us convince politicians [...]

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Middleton wants breast screening service

October 25, 2009

BREAST CANCER SCREENING IN MIDDLETON AND ROCHDALE
In a week when Mark Simmonds, speaking on behalf of the Conservatives, said that in Switzerland breast screening waiting times were being reduced from FIVE days to THREE !  I was asked to publicise a Campaign for Breast Cancer Screening in Middleton, in the Greater Manchester area.
Campaigners say “we [...]

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Surveys, Research and Petition

September 12, 2009

Effective campaigner  AFP/Getty Images

YOU CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
We can’t all have the impact that Joanna Lumley had with her Gurkha campaign, but Government is taking note of petitions- especially with an election looming.
And today, surveys really DO take note of what we want – so they are worth filling in.
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Exciting news about new [...]

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