Collaborating on the integration of cancer nursing services
S Jose Closs Senior Lecturer in Nursing Research, School of Health, University of Hull, Hull
Alison Ferguson Macmillan Palliative Care Adviser
Northern Yorkshire Region Institute of Nursing, University of Leeds, Leeds
David Thompson Professor of Nursing, School of Health, University of Hull, Hull
This article outlines the proposals contained in the Calman-Hine report (DoH 1995), and then presents the work of a nursing task group set up in response to its recommendations. The authors describe how different agencies collaborated in a network approach to improving the provision of cancer services
The Calman-Hine report (DoH 1995) proposed the delivery of a uniformly high level of cancer care across the UK. A network of services provided through cancer centres, cancer units (usually district general hospitals) and primary care is fundamental to the report’s recommendations. Those hospitals which meet specified criteria of excellence, providing care for both common and rare cancers, are to be designated cancer centres.
Nursing Standard.
10, 50, 37-40.
doi: 10.7748/ns.10.50.37.s49
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