Supporting healthcare professionals and the NHS
As well as supporting people affected by blood cancer, we continued to support healthcare professionals to be able to do the best possible job in providing care.
We had to cancel our annual healthcare professional event because of the pandemic, but 2,131 health professionals accessed our e-learning resource for the first time and 1,149 new nurses signed up to our Nurses Network. One clinical nurse specialist told us: “Having Blood Cancer UK behind me has helped me in several ways, enabling me to provide the best possible care to my patients... I can rely on the health information provided to ensure that patients are provided with balanced, evidence-based information.”
We have also worked as part of the wider Blood Cancer Alliance, a group of charities focused on blood cancer, to commission external research into the unmet needs of people with blood cancer compared to the four most common cancers.
We’ve produced a report on access to medicines, which makes recommendations about how people with blood cancer can get speedy access to the best drugs and treatments. We are also looking into the needs of people with blood cancer who are black, Asian or from other minority ethnic groups. We will use the findings to help guide our policy work.