National BME Patient Programme

The Cancer Reform Strategy 2007 recognises that there are links between race and cancer that are complex and which vary between different BME populations. It also recognises that patient experience surveys have shown that BME groups, in general, report a worse experience of treatment and care.

The Patient Experience Team at the National Cancer Action Team has been working with BME charities and Cancer Networks to provide a national voice to BME cancer patients and to understand better why they report a poorer experience.

Since 2007, the team has made a lot of progress. Both the Annual Report of the Cancer Reform Strategy (2008) and the Second Annual Report of the Cancer Reform Strategy (2009) set out the progress made in implementing this work programme. You can also find more information (and reports where available) about the individual projects within this programme by clicking on the menu items to the left of the screen.