The NHS Lanarkshire Lung Cancer Project is part of the Transforming Care after Treatment programme, a partnership between the Scottish Government, Macmillan Cancer Support, NHS Scotland and local authorities, to support a redesign of care following active treatment for cancer. More people are living with lung cancer, but it continues to have a poor prognosis, therefore follow-up care is vital and all patient needs, not just medical, must be addressed appropriately. This article outlines a two-year project that aims to influence changes in follow up for patients with lung cancer, through the testing of digital health technology. The article reports the interim results of the project, which suggest that using electronic patient reported outcome measures, combined with telephone consultations, are acceptable methods of identifying and supporting patients' needs.
Cancer Nursing Practice. 16, 7, 26-30. doi: 10.7748/cnp.2017.e1434
Correspondencepamela.rose@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Conflict of interestThe statistics in this article are the results of a self-evaluation carried out by local project staff, in collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University TCAT Evaluation Team. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Edinburgh Napier University or Macmillan Cancer Support
Received: 29 April 2017
Accepted: 16 June 2017
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