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Find out about our work and how you can use your voice to help us beat blood cancer.
Because together we can beat blood cancer
For too long blood cancer has been overlooked. Our mission is to change that by influencing governments, the NHS and decision-makers to bring forward the day when no one dies from blood cancer or its treatments.
Our blood cancer policy priorities
We are focused on improving access to trials and innovative treatments, supporting the workforce to deliver this, to ensure no one is left behind.
Explore our priorities and key policy and influencing projects including our responses to policy consultations and inquiries and more.
Access to treatments
We know access to new, innovative blood cancer treatments varies across the UK. Find out what we're doing to make access equal for everyone.
Access to clinical trials
Everyone diagnosed with blood cancer should have the opportunity to take part in a suitable clinical trial, regardless of their ethnicity, where they live or their socioeconomic background. Find out what we’re doing to increase access to clinical trials.
Put blood cancer on the agenda in Scotland and Wales
On 7th May voters in Scotland and Wales elected new members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd. We know what it takes to make blood cancer a priority on Scotland's and Wales' political agendas.
UK Blood Cancer Action Plan
In 2024, we published our award-winning UK Blood Cancer Action Plan which made 17 recommendations to improve blood cancer survival in the UK.
Latest policy and influencing news
Keep up to date with our policy and influencing work.
“I was constantly consumed by it” – the hidden psychological burden of watch and wait cancer
New UK-wide study reveals deprivation gap across blood cancer survival
Facts and information about blood cancer
Get in touch with the Policy and Influencing team
If you have any questions or want to know more about our work we'd love to hear from you. Drop us an email on [email protected]
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Join our Policy Collective
Our Policy Collective is made up of people from across the UK who want to help shape our policy and influencing work or just want to hear regular updates about the work we're doing.
National Cancer Plan for England
Find out what the National Cancer Plan for England means for people living with blood cancer, including what it means for the devolved nations.
Facts and information about blood cancer
Blood cancer is the UK’s third biggest cancer killer, yet awareness and understanding of it is much lower than for other types of cancer.
From Westminster to the ward: workforce policy in England
People affected by blood cancer rely on a highly skilled, multidisciplinary NHS workforce. In our blog we set out the latest in workforce policy in England and the actions we're taking.