Award-winning dvd project will benefit thousands of people dealing with cancer in the workplace

Every year around ninety-thousand people of working age are diagnosed with cancer.

To improve communications between employers and staff when faced with cancer in the workplace, Lesley Munro, from Macmillan Cancer Support, Edinburgh, has developed the innovative use of a DVD to highlight five key issues.

The organisation joined forces with Scottish Healthy Working Lives to produce five docudramas to help bring sensitive situations to life.

Now the charity has had its hard work recognised by the BUPA Foundation, winning the medical research charity's Health at Work Award.

Alongside the DVD Macmillan has produced information about cancer and its treatments and employment law.

Ms Munro said: "We've raised awareness of the issues and produced a useful tool for employers to understand the issues that their employees may be going through.

"Macmillan is absolutely delighted to win this BUPA Foundation Award.

It gives us a far greater platform to promote the DVD.

We'll be able to reach more employers and that will support and help people affected by cancer." The vice-chairman of the BUPA Foundation, Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, said: "Every year around 90,000 people of working age are diagnosed with cancer.

This award recognises an innovative way of engaging employers and employees with cancer at this difficult time." Ms Munro received her BUPA Foundation award at a ceremony at Lincoln's Inn in London on the evening of 14 November 2007.

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