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      • Your cancer - useful resources
      • View our series of videos about how to access a whole range of support in your local community
      • Watch our easy-to-understand animation on how to access the support you need in your local community
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Other sources of information you may find helpful

Click on the links below to access a range of documents you may find helpful in the context of the Cancer Alliance's work:

Independent investigation of the NHS in England: Lord Darzi's report on the state of the National Health Service in England (September 2024)

National Cancer Plan for England: February 2026

10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future (July 2025)

The NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer and the work of the NHS national cancer programme

NHS England's Workforce, Training and Education Directorate - ensuring the NHS workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place.

The work of NHS England North East and Yorkshire region

National programmes of work:

National Lung Cancer Screening Programme (see also our work in West Yorkshire and Harrogate)

Community Diagnostic Centres in West Yorkshire

Psychosocial support and improving quality of life outcomes

Data and statistics:

Cancer waiting times in England - NHS England

NHS Digital - Cancer Registration Statistics 2020

UK Cancer Statistics - Cancer Research UK

National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (part of the National Disease Registration Service)

Macmillan Cancer Support - Statistics Factsheet

International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP)

Cancer patient surveys:

National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (NCPES)

U16s National Cancer Patient Experience Survey

 

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