Our passion for reducing cancer inequalities and drive to improve cancer and related health services for patients and those affected by cancer are rooted in Rose’s personal and professional experience. She lost her mother, her twin, and another younger sister to cancer. After 26 years of experience in NHS cancer services, was also diagnosed with cancer in 2015.

Rose worked relentlessly advising and collaborating with countless organisations and delivering speeches, workshops, and presentations to give a powerful message to address key cancer inequality issues. She founded BME Cancer Communities (now B’Me Against Cancer) and launched the Hear Me Now reports in the House of Commons.

Rose’s legacy will have a significant impact on cancer care. Her ethos was to treat the person and not the condition, hence the name of the charity she co-founded is B’Me Against Cancer. B’Me means, put yourself in my place.