Improving Cancer Care – Learning from Your Story

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Macmillan Cancer Support works to improve the experience of all people living with cancer. To do this well we need to know if there are differences in the way people from different backgrounds are treated and feel about cancer services. Macmillan have asked brap (an equalities and human rights charity) to find out more about people’s experiences of cancer services in the UK.

This project aims to find out how and why people’s experience of Cancer Services differs in the UK. Obviously, everybody’s experience of cancer and Cancer Services is different and unique. Yet we would like to understand whether particular groups face particular types of inequality or discrimination that need to be addressed. Do some people find it harder to access Cancer Services? Is everybody treated with dignity and respect when receiving treatment or advice? Are some bits of the system treating people more fairly?

Understanding this will help to generate evidence which can be used to improve Cancer Services across the UK.

Macmillan are particularly interested in the experience of four groups of people:
- Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans people
- Older people
- Black and minority ethnic people (e.g. Black, Asian, Irish, Polish, Gypsy and Traveller)
- People from low income groups

brap doesn’t believe that people fit neatly into categories or boxes, but we want to explore the impact of social identity on a person’s experience of cancer services. Are people’s experiences of fair and equitable treatment linked to identity?

This survey is completely confidential and can be completed anonymously. At no point can we or do we seek to attribute findings to any individual or organisation. The findings will be used to improve the quality of cancer care services.

The survey will take a little over 5 minutes to complete.