NHS Improvement - Cancer publications

In this section of the website, you will find publications specific to:

• Children and young people survivorship
• Adult survivorship
• Transforming inpatients

Ensuring Better Treatment: Going Further on Cancer Waits - An improvement guide for supporting sustainable delivery Want to know how to deliver and sustain your cancer waits? The latest document from the Cancer Improvement Programme is a practical guide aimed at supporting organisations to achieve their cancer waiting times. (Published February 2009).

Survivorship - Children and young people

	Collection of posters from the children and young people test and prototype teams This publication represents some of the learning and the excellent work from the teams and sites participating in the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI). (Published January 2012)
	Designing and implementing pathways to benefit patient aftercare: Continuing to build the evidence This is the fifth in a series of publications from the NCSI CYP workstream. This publication draws together the evidence so far from the NHS teams testing the concepts of alternative modelsof aftercare for children and young people living with and beyond cancer and provides the initial evidence to help to support the commissioning of effective aftercare services in the future
	Models of care to achieve better outcomes for children and young people living with and beyond cancer All children and young people who are cancer survivors should expect to receive the same , high quality standard of individualised care, irrespective of where or when they are treated, their type of cancer or stage of the disease (Published March 2011)
	Building the evidence: developing the winning principles for children and young people Building the evidence: developing the winning principles for children and young people is the latest publication from the Children and Young People Survivorship team and was launched at the fourth national test community workshop. (Published September 2010).
	This Cancer Improvement publication includes improvement stories from the 10 Children and Young People test sites, demonstrating progress and evidence so far (Published April 2010). Providing the evidence to achieve improvements for patients

Survivorship - Adults

	Effective follow-up: testing risk stratfied pathways (Cancer) This document highlights the work being led by NHS Improvement to support the delivery of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI) vision for those living with and beyond cancer. This survivorship agenda is a priority which was outlined in the Cancer Reforms Strategy (2007) and Improving Outcomes: A Strategy For Cancer (2011) (Published May 2011)
	Living with and beyond cancer: The improvement story so far This publication features the learning and improvement stories from the assesment and care planning; adult test communities who have piloted elements of care and support to inform potential new models of care (Published July 2010).* Download the additional improvement stories
	Rapid review of current service provision folowing cancer treatment NHS Improvement carried out a rapid review of current provision of services for breast, prostate and colorectal cancer patients following treatment during the summer of 2009 at the request of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI). This publication shares the findings from this review. (Published September 2010)

Transforming inpatients

	Delivering major breast surgery safely as a day case or one night stay (excluding reconstruction) (December 2011)
	Communications alerts Contact - response - action Improves clinical decision making, patient care, safety and outcomes, avoid unnecessary admissions and re-admissions
	Consolidation Report (2009) - From testing to spread This publication reports back on a review undertaken by NHS Improvement to examine the progress and impact of 25 Acute Trusts who took part in the Transforming Cancer Inpatient Care Programme (July 2007-2008) and the subsequent spread of the Winning Principles and models of care across England (Published July 2010).
	An integrated approach: The transferability of the Winning Principles - Sharing the learning Highlights the learning from the integrated test sites demonstrated that the principles are appropriate, relevant and transferable across the health and social care setting (Published July 2010).
	From testing to spread:Sharing the knowledge and learning from organisations spreading the Winning Principles - case studies The spread case studies illustrate many of these factors and provide an opportunity for sharing ‘working’ knowledge and learning experiences with the intention to promote further spread, adoption and action of good practice across the country and benefit more patients (Published July 2010).
	Summary report of the Enhanced Recovery Partnership Programme - Helping patients to get better sooner after surgery
	Transforming Care for Cancer Patients - Spreading the Winning Principles and Good Practice This publication, the third in a series*, supports the Cancer Reform Strategy’s (2007) Transforming Inpatient Care Programme. Its aim is to illustrate ‘how’ NHS Trusts are spreading tested improvements (Published July 2009).
	Meeting the challenge together... delivering care in the most appropriate setting (October 2008). This document has been designed to support the pilot sites (now starting to test new ideas working with partners in primary care and social care) but will also be of interest to other organisations attempting to reform inpatient care (Published October 2008).
	The Winning Principles- Transforming Inpatient Care Programme for Cancer Patients. (July 2008) By bringing together all the test sites experience and learning, FOUR WINNING PRINCIPLES have been identified that if applied can make a significant difference to the management and experience of the inpatient pathway.
	Winning Principle 1:Case Studies Winning Principle 2:Case Studies Winning Principle 3:Case Studies Winning Principle 4:Case Studies