Category: Cancer

Patients' experience of integrated care

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 14, 2012

By Cancer Campaigning Group (Novemebr 2012)

This report highlights the need for improvements in integrated care for cancer patients and calls for greater assessment of the experience of patients and carers when developing solutions and improvements. Five key areas where patients thought improvements could be made to deliver integrated care were: securing quicker referral from GPs to hospitals for testing and diagnosis; ensuring patients find out the results of their tests as quickly as possible; providing patients with access to a named clinical nurse specialist or other ‘key worker’ throughout the care pathway; supporting patients to feel involved in key decisions about their treatment and care; and putting systems in place to make sure records and test results are available to all clinicians and staff involved in patients’ care.

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Cancer

Updated recommendations for client- and provider-oriented interventions to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 7, 2012

Community Preventative Services Task Force, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2012; 43(1): 92-96

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) recommends increasing screening for breast cancer through use of group education, one-on-one education, client reminders, reducing client out-of-pocket costs, and provider assessment and feedback; increasing screening for cervical cancer through use of one-on-one education, client reminders, and provider assessment and feedback; and increasing screening for colorectal cancer through use of one-on-one education, client reminders, reducing structural barriers to screening, and provider assessment and feedback. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of increasing screening for breast cancer through use of client incentives, mass media, or provider incentives; for cervical cancer screening through use of group education, client incentives, mass media, reducing client out-of-pocket costs, reducing structural barriers, or provider incentives; and for colorectal cancer screening through use of group education, client incentives, mass media, reducing client out-of-pocket costs, or provider incentives. Details of these findings, and some considerations for use, are provided in this article.

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Cancer Community

Effectiveness of interventions to increase screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers: nine updatedsystematic reviews for the guide to community preventive services

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 7, 2012

Sabatino, SA. et al. American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2012; 43(1): 97-118

Findings indicate new and reaffirmed interventions effective in promoting recommended cancer screening, including colorectal cancer screening. Findings can be used in community and healthcare settings to promote recommended care. Important research gaps also are described.

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Cancer

Small media and client reminders for colorectal cancer screening: current use and gap areas in CDC's Colorectal Cancer Control Program

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 7, 2012

Kreuter, MW. et al. Preventing Chronic Disease, 2012; 9: E131

These findings provide the first picture of CRCCP information resources and interests, and point to specific gaps that must be addressed to help increase screening.

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Cancer Health Promotion

Improving capacity, saving lives: endoscopy in the UK

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 8, 2012

By Bowel Cancer UK (2012)

This briefing shows that despite the Government’s aspiration to diagnose people earlier, groups or individuals who need to undergo regular endoscopic procedures because they are at higher risk of bowel cancer (for example, because of a genetic condition or an inflammatory bowel condition) are not getting the timely surveillance they require.

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Cancer Community Health Promotion

Early diagnosis of lung cancer: evaluation of a community-based social marketing intervention

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 2, 2012

Athey, VL. et al. Thorax, 2012; 67(5): 412-417

Poor UK lung cancer survival rates may, in part, be due to late
diagnosis. The objectives of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a mixed-method community-based social marketing intervention on lung cancer diagnoses.

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Cancer

Spotlight on quality assurance reference centres

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 7, 2012

By Department of Health (August 2012)

At present there are three population based cancer screening programmes; for breast, cervical and bowel cancer. All three cancer screening programmes require rigorous quality assurance if they are to maximise reductions in cancer mortality and cause minimal harms.

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Cancer Patient Satisfaction

Cancer patient experience survey 2011/12: national report

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 29, 2012

By Department of Health (August 2012)

This report, based on the results of the second national cancer patient experience survey, provides insights into the level of care received by nearly 72,000 inpatient and day case cancer patients. It compares the results with the previous survey carried out in 2010 and has found an overall improvement in patient satisfaction with cancer care services, particularly in the areas of information and communication.

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The way forward: strategic clinical networks

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 8, 2012

By NHS Commissioning Board

The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plan for a small number of national networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions. Called strategic clinical networks, these organisations will build on the success of network activity in the NHS which, over the last 10 years, has led to significant improvements in the delivery of patient care.

Strategic clinical networks, hosted and funded by the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB), will cover conditions or patient groups where improvements can be made through an integrated, whole system approach. These networks will help local commissioners of NHS care to reduce unwarranted variation in services and encourage innovation.

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Cancer Health Promotion