Extract from Westminster Hall debate on World Cancer Day - Jan 30
Thursday, 31 January 2019 08:34
Ruth George (High Peak) (Lab):...I echo the comments of the hon.
Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford) about the costs of
cancer. Again, universal credit is an extremely complicated system
for people—not just the parents of children with cancer but cancer
sufferers themselves—to go through. It took six hours at a computer
for one young man, Neil, who is cited by Macmillan Cancer Support,
to complete the claim form for universal credit while suffering
from the treatment for a brain...Request free trial
(High Peak) (Lab):...I
echo the comments of the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr
Whitford) about the costs of cancer. Again, universal credit is an
extremely complicated system for people—not just the parents of
children with cancer but cancer sufferers themselves—to go through.
It took six hours at a computer for one young man, Neil, who is
cited by Macmillan Cancer Support, to complete the claim form for
universal credit while suffering from the treatment for a brain
tumour. We are putting cancer patients through an absolutely
sub-human system when they should already have as much support as
possible...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
and Social Care (Steve Brine):...The hon. Member for
Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Ged Killen), who is no longer in his
place, made the point about the late
and her work on brain
tumours. Her great legacy there is to stimulate the
research community to come forward with decent research proposals
that we can back. We heard the same in last week’s debate on the
treatment of ME: it is not for Ministers in the Department of
Health and Social Care to decide what research projects will and
will not happen. The projects have to come from the research
community, and they have to be good to be backed by the NIHR. That
is the same for cancer as it is for every area...
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