“Multidisciplinary team meetings have become meaningless.” “It’s a rubber stamp.” “It’s a bureaucratic exercise.” These comments, made by oncologists from a number of countries at an ESO meeting to discuss training needs, paint quite a [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]
When key figures in European cancer nursing gathered at the Royal Marsden to mark 30 years of EONS, they found they had a lot to celebrate and a lot more work to do. All [more]
The complexity of cancer, the risks and benefits associated with alternative treatment options, the care needs of patients, all point to the need for input from specialists in many disciplines. But are regular face-to-face multidisciplinary [more]
The story of how breast care in Europe moved from one-size-fits-all mutilating mastectomy towards a model of care tailored to the individual, stressing breast conservation and delivered by multidisciplinary breast teams is one that workers [more]
If you had cancer, you’d want to be treated by experienced specialists working within a specialised multidisciplinary team. So why are so many of Europe’s cancer patients still being treated in hospitals whose case-loads are [more]
Multidisciplinary teams provide the best quality cancer care, as specialists come together to discuss diagnoses and plan treatments. They raise standards, improve patient experiences and save lives. Sadly, most of Europe’s cancer patients never have [more]