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Living with and Beyond Cancer

Enhancing survivorship care for cancer patients through personalized support, rehabilitation, and new follow-up care models. Includes holistic needs assessment, treatment summaries for GPs, and resources for late effects management.

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Living with and Beyond Cancer

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  1. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Living with and Beyond Cancer Dr Dorothy Goddard Macmillan Associate Medical Director for Cancer RUH

  2. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services The problem: increasing demand • Increasing number of people developing cancer • Increasing number of survivors

  3. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services The problem: unmet needs • Conventional follow up not meeting people’s needs • Recurrent or new disease not picked up at routine follow up visit

  4. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Cancer Survivorship Living with and beyond cancer • Supporting people from cancer diagnosis through treatment and beyond… • Includes recovery and rehabilitation, (+/- pre-habilitation) • New models of after care: supported self management • Return to specialist care • Supporting people with active or advanced disease

  5. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Recovery and rehabilitation • Survivorship recovery package • Holistic needs assessment and care planning – with referral as required • Treatment summary and GP cancer care review • Health and well being event

  6. Holistic Needs Assessment and Care Plan

  7. Electronic version

  8. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Treatment summary • Essential information for GP • Developed by Macmillan GP’s • Designed to inform GP primary care review

  9. Treatment summary and care plan

  10. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Moving On Day Opportunity for survivors to meet with professionals, ask questions, meet allied organisations

  11. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Rehabilitation • Services such as • ‘Step up’ chronic fatigue service based at RNHRD • Exercise programme with ‘Aquaterra’ service • Dietician • Benefits / advice service • Counselling services or Psychologist

  12. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services New models of Follow up care • Routine clinical follow up replaced by: Supported self-management for all suitable patients with discharge from clinical follow up on completion of primary treatment. Risk stratified model of care

  13. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services New models of Follow up care • ‘Remote’ monitoring (eg blood markers, PSA monitoring, CT scans, colonoscopies, mammography) • Requires effective IT systems to ensure surveillance tests are done, results checked, patient/GP informed • Nurse/Allied health professional follow up/often by telephone or at routine surveillance points - • such as mammography or PSA, CEA feedback • includeroutine Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM’s – provide evidence of unmet needs or consequences of treatment)

  14. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Return to specialist care • Contact Information to patient and GP – in hours / out of hours • Telephone advice • Return for clinical review • Support for active or advanced disease / late effects • Provided in partnership with primary care • Metastatic cancer nurse specialists • Development late effects services

  15. Somerset, Wilts, Avon and Gloucester Cancer Services Late effects • Some health and wellbeing issues attributed to consequences of cancer treatment – such as: Post breast cancer: Post colon cancer: Menopausal symptoms 50% patients after pelvic Osteoporosis radiotherapy Pain - left with bowel problems FATIGUE affecting quality of life Lymphoedema– arm and/or breast Post prostate cancer: Erectile dysfunction Post childhood cancer: 60% experience one or more late effects of treatment 10 years following treatment.

  16. South West Strategic Clinical Networks ASW Cancer Network Survivorship Group: Identifying and meeting the diverse needs of cancer survivors Aim: To work collaboratively across the Network and Health Community involving all organisations caring for cancer survivors: acute providers, primary care, clinical commissioning groups, community services, charitable organisations and service users Objectives: To develop services within and across organisations to identify and meet the diverse needs of cancer survivors To develop a source of information for services available for cancer survivors First steps: To develop a work programme initially to support specific interventions such as health needs assessments, end of treatment summaries and health & well being clinics. To identify resource implications and process to support commissioning

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