Macmillan Cancer Support to axe 150 jobs amid soaring inflation

Exclusive: Charity seeks to ‘minimise the impact’ of the cuts on beneficiaries living with cancer

Macmillan Cancer Support, one of Britain’s biggest and best known charities, is planning to axe 150 jobs – one in 14 of its workforce – saying that it is getting harder to raise money to cover rising demand for its help due to increasing numbers of people living with cancer.

The charity, whose services play a vital role in local NHS provision, spends £250m a year funding about 11,000 specialist cancer nurses and care workers and providing financial, practical and emotional support and advice to the public, including thousands of £200 grants to patients needing help with energy and travel costs.