Author: Clair Thorstensen-Woll

While the newly elected Members of the Senedd settle into their roles and Plaid Cymru form the next government, we’re taking stock of the progress made in improving brain tumour care and outcomes across Wales. This new government brings a critical opportunity to shift the dial for brain tumour care, diagnosis, treatment and research in Wales.

Following a consultation by the Department of Health and Social Care, in which we fed back your experiences of brain tumours, we welcome the publication of the National Cancer Plan for England and its explicit focus on rare and less survivable cancers, including brain tumours.

We’ve broken down what the proposed reforms were, what’s changed, and what it means for our community.

The Government is working on a 10-year health plan to modernise the NHS. Here we discuss our campaign calling for a National Brain Tumour Strategy to be included in this.

We’ve taken a deep dive into the pledges made in the Liberal Democrat manifesto and what they could mean for the brain tumour community.

We explore the key health and care takeaways from the Conservative Party conference – and what this could mean for the brain tumour community.

We explore NHS England data to find out what it means for brain tumour waiting times in the first six months of 2023.

We look at what NHS England’s Long-Term Workforce Plan could mean for the brain tumour community.