Welcome to Cancer Improvement
What's new from Cancer Improvement
National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI) Vision Document, January 2010
The Department of Health have published the Vision document which provides an update on the first year of the NCSI and describes the emerging vision for improved care and support for people living with and beyond cancer. Click here to view the Vision document and other supporting documents.
Enhanced Recovery Programme Launch and Clinical Workshop
Launch events have been scheduled for early spring to launch the Enhanced Recovery Programme. These launches and clinical workshops will take place across the country. To find out more about these events and for registration details click here
Cancer Reform Strategy - Second Annual Report Published
The Department of Health have published the second annual report of its Cancer Reform Strategy. Within the report are priorities for 2010 as highlighted by National Cancer Director, Professor Mike Richards. Chapter seven highlights the work from the NHS Improvement Transforming Inpatient Care programmes test sites and emphasises the potential benefits to trusts if they apply the four Winning Principles. For a full copy of the report, click here
National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI)
The NAEDI call for proposals for research in awareness and early detection of cancer has just been announced and the special NAEDI supplement to the British Journal of Cancer has now been published. Click here to view further information about the NAEDI expressions of interest call and here to view the BJC supplement, ‘Diagnosing Cancer Earlier: Evidence for a National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative’.
Transforming Care for Cancer Patients - Spreading the Winning Principles and Good PracticeAs referred to in the recent letter from David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive,the new publication “highlights a set of simple improvements which could save a million bed days if adopted across England”. Click here to download the Transforming Care for Cancer Patients publication (July 2009) and here to view the Spreading the Winning Principles Case Studies.
Find out more about Enhanced Recovery Programmes here
Want to know how to deliver and sustain your cancer waits? NHS Improvement's Ensuring Better Treatment: Going Further on Cancer Waits - An improvement guide for supporting sustainable delivery' a practical guide aimed at supporting organisations to achieve their cancer waiting times can show you how
What is Cancer Improvement?
Cancer Improvement is part of NHS Improvement. Working with and through clinical networks and NHS Organisations across England, NHS Improvement helps to transform, deliver and build sustainable improvements across the entire pathway of care in cancer, diagnostics, heart and stroke services.
Cancer Improvement supports local organisations and clinical teams to look at the services they offer to patients. Working together, the aim is to make significant improvements by streamlining and redesigning the way that cancer care is delivered to patients to improve the patient experience and support the delivery of the Cancer Reform Strategy (2007). Cancer Improvement works closely with the national Cancer Programme to support the implementation of the Cancer Reform Strategy.
Cancer Improvement works in a variety of different areas, in a number of workstreams including:
- Prevention across specialty
- Ensuring better treatment - going further on cancer waits
- Living with and beyond cancer - specific focus on children and teenagers
- Living with and beyond cancer - survivorship (not children and young adults)
- Reducing inequalities
- Delivering care in the most appropriate way - Transforming Inpatient Care Programme
For full details and to find out more, use the links on the left hand menu.
Cancer Reform Strategy
The Cancer Reform Strategy builds on the progress made since the publication of the NHS Cancer Plan in 2000 and sets a clear direction for cancer services for the next five years. It shows how by 2012 our cancer services can and should become among the best in the world.
NHS Improvement System
A comprehensive online resource of tools, guides and case studies to support quality improvement in NHS services. The system supports the clinical specialties listed above and is available free to every NHS organisation in England. To Log on or register, click on the Improvement System tab at the top of this page.
