Mr Anthony Symes

Isabel Hospice is a registered charity which provides free palliative care and support for patients and their families living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses such at MND, end stage renal conditions, end stage heart conditions, respiratory conditions or other neurological conditions, throughout eastern Hertfordshire. The population they serve is almost 350,000 people. Care is based on the simple idea that patients are ordinary people living with physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs. The Hospice provides enormous support to families and friends, caring for the patients and all those around them.

We are working to improve outcomes for bladder cancer patients by:

• Raising awareness of the signs and symptoms among the public so they seek advice sooner
• Improving awareness and investigation techniques among health professionals to improve early diagnosis
• Improving the treatment and management of bladder cancer to increase patient survival rates in line with that achieved for other common cancers

We are working to improve research into bladder cancer by:

• Identifying the key research priorities
• Encouraging, contributing to and funding research
• Improving research data and statistics

We are working to improve patient support through:

• Our high quality information materials and resources library
• Actively increasing the number of bladder cancer patient support groups across the UK
• Providing advice and support to both new and existing groups and helping to bring groups together
• Helping to give bladder cancer patients a voice

The Retired Greyhound Trust was founded in 1975, since then they are proud to have found over 75,000 loving homes for greyhounds. Each year, they home approximately 4,000 retired racing greyhounds and help hundreds more, but there are many more that still need help.