Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance is actively recruiting people with lived experience of cancer to join its expanding Patient and Public Representative Group. Lived experience could mean either as a patient or the carer of someone with a cancer diagnosis.

As a Patient or Public Representative, you will have the opportunity to share your experience of cancer to help improve cancer services across Humber and North Yorkshire.
Find out: 

• What the role is 
• How you can get involved 
• If you are eligible 
• How to join the team 

As a Patient or Public Representative for the Cancer Alliance, your main role is to use your knowledge and experience to give feedback on and advise about the impact on patients of work developed and undertaken by the Cancer Alliance.

You will be in a unique position, acting as a critical friend to the Cancer Alliance, and using your voice to challenge the approach and thinking of those making decisions.

You can challenge the Cancer Alliance in an appropriate manner, remaining respectful and open to a wide range of opinions and thought processes.

There are many ways to be involved as a Patient or Public Representative, including:

• Attend the bi-monthly Patient and Public Representative Group Meeting
• Sit on Cancer Alliance Programme Boards, Steering Committees or Working Groups
• Represent the Cancer Alliance at community engagement events
• Be involved in a specific project
• Give feedback on materials to ensure they are patient and public friendly
• Complete surveys to give your views

To become a member of the Patient and Public Representative Group, you must:

• Live within the Humber and North Yorkshire area – or have received treatment for cancer by a local NHS service
• Have been diagnosed with or treated for cancer. This includes people receiving ongoing treatment, and can be a primary or secondary diagnosis of cancer

Or:

• Have cared for or supported someone who has either received a cancer diagnosis, or been treated for cancer in Humber and North Yorkshire