{"id":809568,"date":"2026-10-21T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809568\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:24:13","slug":"stratford-cancer-patient-takes-hospice-funding-plea-to-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809568\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratford cancer patient takes hospice funding plea to Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elizabeth Hancock, CEO of Mary Ann Evans Hospice in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, told the BBC that she wants to see &#8220;assurance&#8221; that funding for hospice care will &#8220;see some improvement&#8221; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2ydg6p0xlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the centre&#8217;s lymphoedema service closed in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/lymphoedema\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lymphoedema, external<\/a> is a condition which causes swelling in the body&#8217;s tissues, usually in the arms and legs, the NHS says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our financial situation is extremely serious and without significant additional financial support we are going to struggle,&#8221; Hancock said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have had assurances from our NHS commissioners that they want to offer their full support and they have recently given us some additional funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But for some hospices the funding may come too late&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper delivered the names of supporters, printed across 2,500 sheets of A4 paper, to Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hospices will help people like me, and lets face it, there are thousands of us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper told the BBC he is trying to &#8220;make the most of everyday&#8221; and he is looking forward to watching his son get married at the end of October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Hancock, CEO of Mary Ann Evans Hospice in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, told the BBC that she wants to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}