Everyone should be treated with care and compassion and be an equal partner in their care. Understanding patient views about the cancer treatment they’ve experienced will help make our services better for all patients. We ask health professionals to support and encourage all patients, from all backgrounds, to provide feedback on their care and treatment using local and national feedback mechanisms.
View more here: The National Cancer Plan for England: delivering world class cancer care
Our aims include:
- good engagement between patients, carers, community groups, voluntary and community organisations – ensuring that the patient voice is involved in everything that we do.
- greater co-production between clinicians, health professionals and patients to help shape and improve services.
- to have a better appreciation of patient’s experiences, by listening to their feedback directly and/or via data gathered nationally through the yearly National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (NCPES)
How we are doing this:
- by offering a number of opportunities where patients can get involved and contribute to the work of the Alliance, in activities to suit different interests, skills and fitting in with the time that they can make available.
- by creating a greater patient resource (Patient Reference Group) to support the work throughout our work streams; i.e Prevention & Early Diagnosis and Personalised Care. This will enable a feed in/out mechanism for the patient voice and good interaction across all of our projects, including our tumour specific Clinical Quality Groups (CQGs).
- working with local patient groups to promote the work of the Alliance and advise of opportunities for involvement.
- working with local community groups to better understand our population and to establish the links needed to promote our Cancer Allies programme.
To find out more or how to get involved in our patient network, please contact: bobicb-bw.england.tvcaadmin@nhs.net
