What's new from Cancer Improvement
2 Feb - Posters from CYP test and prototype teams
31 Jan - Please give feedback on our website
25 Jan - Testing pathways for those living with and beyond cancer
24 Jan - Interactive pathway for cancer survivorship
11 Jan - National Lung Cancer Audit Report 2011
Testing pathways of care for those living with and beyond cancer
NHS Improvement is looking for teams to prototype stratified pathways and packages of care for prostate, colorectal and breast cancer patients following initial treatment for cancer. The aim is to test the transferability of stratified pathways and the accompanying packages of care that have been piloted in a number of pilot test sites. This work is a key step prior to national roll out. This testing work is supporting the National Cancer Survivorship initiative (NCSI); a partnership between the Department of Health, NHS Improvement and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Please complete the expression of interest form, and return to survivorship@improvement.nhs.uk
The information pack contains more details, but if you wish to discuss your application, please contact Gilmour Frew, Director, Tel: 0774 777 6578 or Anne Wilkinson, National Improvement Lead, Tel: 0782 730 9156.
We would be grateful if you could distribute this to organisations involved across the breast, colorectal and prostate pathways of care.
National Cancer Survivorship Initiative:Teenage and Adult Aftercare Pathway
The children and young people cancer survivorship aftercare pathways have now been launched. The pathways have been produced and endorsed as clinical good practice following an extensive consultation process with input from clinical experts and cancers survivors. CLICK HERE to view the pathway.
New publication
 | Delivering major breast surgery safely as a day case or one night stay (excluding reconstruction)
NHS Improvement has been working with clinical teams across England to transform the way in which breast surgery is delivered. This work has been supported by the British Association of Day Surgery, the Association of Breast Surgery and by patients. Patients do not need to be admitted to hospital the night before surgery. Equally they want to return to normal life as quickly as possible |
What is Cancer Improvement?
The Cancer Improvement team works with and through clinical networks and NHS Organisations across England to transform, deliver and build sustainable improvements across the entire pathway of cancer care.
Cancer Improvement works closely with the national Cancer Programme and 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 Outcomes Strategy (2011).
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