Cancer Patient Care Program

Overview

This grant opportunity seeks to ensure that all Australian’s living with cancer have access to high-quality and culturally safe support throughout their cancer experience. Acknowledging the existing national cancer screening programs and funding provided for more commonly diagnosed cancers, this grant opportunity will prioritise activities that focus on increasing equity across tumour types and/or priority populations.  The Cancer Patient Support Program (the Program) will support, one-off, time-limited activities that provide national leadership on emerging priorities across the cancer control continuum.  Assessment and notification of outcomes will be divided into three Submission Periods during the life of this Program. Each Submission Period will include assessment of applications that have been submitted to the grant opportunity over the preceding Submission Period.  For example:  Submission Period 1 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between the opening date and 2:00pm AEST on 14 May 2024. Submission Period 2 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between 2:01pm AEST on 14 May 2024 and 2:00pm AEST on 18 September 2024. Submission Period 3 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between 2:01pm AEST on 18 September and 2:00pm AEST on 1 August 2025.  Note: Please refer to the most recent version of the Frequently Asked Questions document (version 3) published on 16 July 2025. To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.