The National Cancer Plan: Delivering on Ambition

28th September 2026

15:45 – 16:45

Room 12, Liverpool Experience Campus (formerly ACC)

With the National Cancer Plan now published, focus turns to delivery. This panel brings together policymakers, patient groups and industry to explore how it will deliver for patients in the near term and how it will need to build a system of the future. The Health and Care Forum is powered by Total Politics.

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Speakers

Adam Payne (Chair)

Editor, PoliticsHome

Sonia Kumar MP

Parliamentary Private Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care

MP for Dudley

James Hargrave

Director of Government Affairs, Daiichi Sankyo

Naser Turabi

Director of Health Policy and Evidence, Cancer Research UK

Dr Stephen Harden

President, Royal College of Radiologists

Rachel Power

CEO, The Patient Association

Gemma Peters

CEO, Macmillan Cancer Support

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