Joined-up patient-centred care requires sharing of data between patients, oncologists, hospitals, labs, GPs, nurses and even social care. But as apps designed to gather and share this data proliferate, so does the risk that the [more]
The European Oncology Nursing Society has compiled the evidence to show the value of the work cancer nurses do, and the specialist training and education they need to do it. Now they’re calling on policy [more]
While many western countries are pioneering safe delivery of more cancer care in primary, community and home settings, across central and eastern Europe, beds in university hospitals and cancer centres are still filled unnecessarily with [more]
Health systems and insurances take decisions on reimbursing targeted medicines, doctors focus increasingly on tailoring treatments to individual patients and the molecular biology of their disease. But the need for funded quality-controlled services to do [more]
In February this year there was a significant announcement from the European Commission – the Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), the result of several years’ work to integrate data from European cancer [more]
Specialists feel responsible for their patients, but lack time to offer long-term care. Patients feel abandoned as their treatment ends, but lack resources to seek the care they need. GPs lack confidence to deal with [more]
The need to give greater weight to patients’ own assessments of treatment impacts is increasingly accepted in principle. Putting it into practice will require a lot of hard work, developing tools that work for specific [more]
Symptomatic cancers are diagnosed quicker in some countries than others. A group of European primary care physicians recently set out to discover why this is, by gathering information about the different factors that influence decision-making. [more]
Complex healthcare cannot succeed without effective communication between everyone involved in the patient’s care, with each understanding and respecting the contribution of others. Peter McIntyre looks at where things can go wrong, and how to [more]
The European Commission has issued a warning about a 1 million projected shortfall in Europe’s clinical workforce by 2020 – with nursing shortages accounting for more than half the total. Marc Beishon reports on the [more]
Pooling data that tell the unique story of each cancer patient reveals patterns that could help us learn about which treatments work best for which patients in everyday clinical practice – and about which clinics [more]
Eurocare, the landmark series of studies comparing survival of cancer patients among European countries, has been profoundly important in focusing attention on the quality of Europe’s cancer services over the past two decades. Now in [more]
Mr Lloyd is angry! His elderly mother is getting no treatment for her metastatic lung cancer, and he doesn’t want to hear what the doctors and nurses are saying… …A different approach by a new [more]