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1990 - BACUP's fifth anniversary since launch.
Tim Clement-Jones cuts the fifth anniversary cake at The Great Hall, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
More than 100,000 people have been helped. BACUP launches its face-to-face counselling service, available to people who can come to the London offices. Prof Tim McElwain dies.
1991 - The first BACUP ball, a masked masquerade, is held at the Hyde Park hotel.
1992 - BACUP is enabled to move into its present premises at 3 Bath Place, London with a generous donation from Mr Teddy Yip, father of Vicky Clement Jones. Prof Michael Whitehouse becomes Chairman of the Medical and Specialist Advisory Board (Later changed to the Medical Advisory Committee). Alan Watson becomes chief executive.
1993 - BACUP becomes a company limited by guarantee. The first trustees (directors) are Dr Maurice Slevin (chairman), Tim Clement-Jones, David Donne, Dr David Poole. Loretta Tinckham and Pat Lamburn appointed Trustees and directors.
1994 - BACUP nurses are now answering more than 34,000 telephone calls and letters a year.
1995 - BACUP Scotland opened in Glasgow. Publications increasingly adopted and translated by cancer organisations around the world. Budget £1.4 million. Jean Mossman becomes chief executive.
1996 - BACUP takes on an advocacy role. Appointment of Lesley Fallowfield and David Amos as Trustees
1997 - BACUP launches its website with all its publications available in full on line. Over 1500 pages of cancer information written specifically for cancer patients on all aspects of cancer available on the website, together with a searchable database of over 700 support groups and organisations for cancer patients in the UK. Tim Bell becomes trustee. Professor Nick Thatcher becomes chairman of Medical Advisory Committee.
Lesley Fallowfield suggests the name CancerBACUP. The reason for the change is simple: including the word cancer in the name says what the organisation does and ensures that it can be found easily and quickly in telephone directories, indexes, databases and on the internet.
1998 - BACUP becomes CancerBACUP. CD Rom version of website launched - all publications and the searchable database available on a CD Rom. First regional centre opened at Nottingham City Hospital with a trained CancerBACUP nurse. Dr Terry Priestman becomes chairman of the newly formed Medical Editorial Board.
1999 - CancerBACUP nurses now helping more than 46,000 patients and their families a year. CancerBACUP publishes fifty-four booklets ranging from 24 to 60 pages covering all aspects of cancer and its treatment, as well as publications on living with cancer. There are also over seventy fact sheets covering less common cancers and treatments. The website was visited by over 35,000 unique URL's and had nearly 750,000 pages viewed each month.
CancerBACUP local centres opened in Coventry and London. We advise the National Health Service on the needs of cancer patients. Alastair Ross Goobey and Michael Hoare become CancerBACUP trustees. CancerBACUP budget £2.5 million.
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