{"id":3355,"date":"2020-04-30T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solariscancercare.org.au\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:24:00","slug":"letter-from-our-ceo-on-seeking-government-support-in-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/letter-from-our-ceo-on-seeking-government-support-in-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from our CEO on seeking government support in response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I write to you at a time where the world has changed significantly, for all of us, including the Solaris Family.&nbsp; It\u2019s a time where we are working through the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For nearly 20 years, Solaris has delivered support to cancer patients at all stages of their cancer journey.&nbsp; Our support has been considered, caring and personal. In fact, 90% of our services have been delivered in-person across our five locations.&nbsp; But that all changed on 20 March, when we closed our doors and launched our remote and outreach programs to stay connected with our patients.&nbsp; We are doing this online and by phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our patients are telling us that our services are even more vital to them during this crisis.&nbsp; But we need support to continue to provide these essential services to our patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to share with you the letter I wrote to the Premier on 2 April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solariscancercare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SCC-Letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3359\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solariscancercare.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-nuuttud-l-y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/solariscancercare.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-nuuttud-l-j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the Letter to the Premier here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solaris Cancer Care CEO David Edwards stresses the importance of public support in light of the centres&#8217; closures as a response to COVID-19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-current-news-and-information","tag-david-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}