England rugby hero Lawrence Dallaglio has a blunt message for bureaucrats in ...

England rugby hero Lawrence Dallaglio has a blunt message for bureaucrats in the NHS: Tackle cancer harder

CAMPAIGNING is in Lawrence Dallaglio’s blood. The former England rugby captain

was just a teenager when his elder sister Francesca died in the Marchioness

riverboat disaster on the Thames in 1989, which, he said, “blew my family

apart”. His mother, Eileen, sought meaning from Francesca’s death by

fighting for a public inquiry into the tragedy that killed 51 partygoers and

lobbying successfully for changes in the law.

When Eileen died in 2008 after a long battle with cancer, Dallaglio, “humbled

and inspired” by her example, vowed to follow in her footsteps. He set up

the Dallaglio Foundation, which has since funded three clinical fellows

researching cancer treatments and a three-year project to devise

personalised treatments for prostate cancer.

“When she passed away, I had always felt quite passionate about doing

something and that was the catalyst for setting up the foundation,” he said.

Dallaglio knows the pain of watching a

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England rugby hero Lawrence Dallaglio has a blunt message for bureaucrats in ...