I recently attended a Parliamentary reception hosted by Macmillan Cancer Support to discuss their Save Our Support initiative, a campaign to ensure that the country has a fully funded and sustainable cancer workforce in order to support the millions of people living with cancer across the UK.
I support the NHS getting the nurses it needs to improve frontline services and the care patients receive here in Carshalton and Wallington. This is why I’m backing Macmillan’s campaign to ensure that my constituents have access to the fantastic nurse specialists that will support them through a very difficult time in their lives.
Ensuring the NHS gets the new and fully trained cancer workforce that it needs will still require further support from the Government and I look forward to seeing these comprehensive plans within the NHS People Plan which will be published this year. We have already committed to 50,000 more nurses.
I want my constituents within Carshalton and Wallington, to get the support they deserve from local cancer services. This is why I will continue to work with Macmillan Cancer Support on their campaign to ensure local people get the right support and would welcome hearing from more constituents living with cancer on the impact their diagnosis has had on them.