Cancer Networks: Moving forward

1. Cancer Networks: Moving forward Pat Higgins Director of Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network

2. Summary • The future role of cancer networks • Driving improvement • Improving service delivery • Integrated working • Planning for Reform in M&C and our priorities

3. What are the characteristics of networks • Collaborative • Partnership • Patient centred • Consensus • Pathways • Seamless care

4. Network Structure • Taskforce (Board) • Managers Forum • Management team • Cancer Commissioning Group • Lead Clinicians • Lead Nurses Forum • Clinical Network Groups (CNGs)

5. NETWORK TASKFORCE Network Team Cancer Commissioning Group Network Managers Forum Lead Nurses Lead Clinician Sefton Sefton PCT, UHA FT, S&O and WCNN Trusts West Cheshire Countess of Chester FT and Western Cheshire Liverpool PCT RLBUH & LWH FT /Trusts Eastern Warrington, St Helens & Halton and Knowsley PCTs NCH and St H&K Trusts Wirral Wirral PCT and Wirral Trust and CCO Urology ICN ICN Breast ICN Colorectal ICN ICN OG HPB CAYP Gynae Lung Chemo Path Rad Sarcoma Neuro SPC Haem Chemo Pharm Health Inequalities Paed Palliative Head & Neck Primary Care

6. Locality Leads • Sefton: Kathy Collins • Liverpool: Linda Devereux • Wirral & West Cheshire: Alison Williams • Eastern: Anita Corrigan 1 2 4 3

7. Type of Network • Governed partnership • Funded by and accountable to PCTs • Core roles defined • PCTs sign off objectives and review 6/12 • Report to PCT Networks Board via Taskforce

8. Network challenges • 2nd highest incidence rates in the country • Ditto for mortality rates • Trust configuration - high number of specialist trusts • Cancer centre without surgical oncology • Lack of academic research leadership • 5 out of 7 PCTs are Spearhead PCTs

9. Cancer Mortality Rates Best of Europe European Average 20% Gap English Average 14% Gap Merseyside & Cheshire Average 126% female lung Ca North Liverpool

10. Excess deaths from cancer [1] Source NCHOD mortality all ages all cancers

11. Key Priorities • Health Inequalities • Better Treatment • Living with and beyond cancer • Care in appropriate settings • Ensuring delivery • Building capability and capacity

12. Health Inequalities • IOG Delivery • Supportive Care • HMDS • CYP • Skin • Sarcoma • Neuro Better Treatment Primary Care Strategy CPORT CPED Strategy Map of Medicine Genetics & Fertility – access issues? NCAG Social marketing HPB Pharmacy protocols PH Analyst Trainee LD/ACC Ward dependency project ACC training DVD Follow-ups project CRS screening extension Satellite Radiotherapy Development of Lead Clinicians’ role BCSP 2WR clinics fit for purpose? Succession planning / AfC Workforce planning Nursing Strategy Adv Comms Skills AHP Strategy Patient information strategy • Support • Locality Groups • CNGs Living with and Beyond Cancer Building Capacity and Capability • Supportive Care • Key worker • Holistic assessment • 24/7 7/7 • Psychology • Rehabilitation • Adv Care Planning website Pt Involvement Strategy E-learning Commissioning toolkit NDP / NDP Next Steps CRS waiting times ICCP Anatomy & oncology CPIs SCR & Data Warehousing • Peer Review • Self Assessment – working group • RAP monitoring Palliative Care Strategy M&C response to NW Cancer Plan Inpatient redesign Research Strategy & CRUK Centre CRS NICE uptake audit Care in Appropriate Settings Support ICNs Ensuring Delivery

13. Key Issues facing networks • Survival! • Improving Outcomes Guidance • Peer review • Influencing the commissioning of cancer services • Service Improvement and re-design • Responding to Cancer Reform Strategy

14. Oesophago-gastric Original configuration: 8 units all delivering full range of services Southport and Ormskirk Aintree St Helens and Knowsley North Cheshire Cardiothoracic Centre Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Wirral Hospitals Countess of Chester

15. Oesophago-gastric By 2007 3 centres delivering complex care Aintree Cardiothoracic Centre Partnership with North Wales Network Wrexham

16. Peer review • Self assessment • Self Improving • Validation • Exception visits • Performance monitoring • Using the process to drive up quality and improve services

17. What the CRS says about Networks ……………………..to recommend that cancer commissioning is coordinated across a network of care, based on patient care pathways into these services, rather than formal organisational boundaries

18. Commissioning • strengthen the support available tocommissioners, including publishing a cancer commissioning guide and planning toolkit; and • Commissioners should also use existing national guidance and standards and the process of peer review to assist them in making commissioning decisions for cancer.

19. World class commissioning • Providing information and support to promote informed choice in treatment and care; • Delivering safe and effective radiotherapy in accordance with the recommendations of the National Radiotherapy Advisory Group;

20. What levers do networks have? 2.42 PCTs will also need to ensure that providers of cancer services collect datasets as set out in national contracts. 2.65 End of Life Care – building on baseline reviews improve access to high quality services close their homes with rapid response services and coordination centres.

21. Important quotes • Networks teams should act as agents for commissioners, supporting them to coordinate their activities and providing shared expertise, maintaining the dialogue with clinical teams and users, agreeing clinical guidelines and pathways and driving forward innovative, high quality care;

22. What does that look and feel like?

23. A bit like this!

24. Or if the technology fails - this! • Herding cats! • Knitting fog

25. Why do we need a North West plan? • Cancer in the North West - challenges to health services and wider community • Future demand for cancer services • Improve preventive programmes • Work with local communities • An opportunity in to address some of these issues collectively & individually.

26. PREVENTION To help prevent cancer we will: Pledge 2: We will implement the tobacco control plan. Pledge 5 : The North West will strive towards reducing obesity especially in children and young people. Pledge 6: The North West will campaign for greater regulation of sun beds to protect children and young people.

27. SCREENING To improve and extend breast screening services: Pledge 6:Unacceptable variations in screening uptake will be investigated and appropriate action will be taken to target the population never screened. PCTs leads will examine the coverage and uptake rates for all screening programmes to improve and maintain uptake by their populations.

28. TREATMENT To improve waiting times for cancer treatments: Pledge 10: We will ensure that all patients in the North West will meet extended standards for waiting times. For second or subsequent surgery and chemotherapy this will mean that patients will wait no longer than 31 days by December 08. All women referred by their GP with breast symptoms will be seen within two weeks by December 2009. All patients with a suspected cancer detected through screening programmes will be treated within 62 days by 2009. To improve the quality of capture of cancer staging at presentation we will: Action: By December 2009 we will have completed the collection of retrospective staging data for cancers diagnosed in 2006. During 2008/09 all data will be collected prospectively through MDTs to capture this in real time, and be used as a basis for treatment decisions

29. TREATMENT To improve access to radiotherapy Pledge 11: Networks, working with their cancer centres and PCTs will develop radiotherapy satellite facilities to meet the expectations within the CRS and NRAG which will guarantee that patients have a maximum travel time of 45 mins for the more common cancers and for those requiring palliative treatment. PCTs will commission any additional capacity that cannot be met from better utilisation of existing equipment.. To deliver local, consistent and safe chemotherapy: Pledge 16: By 2012 Chemotherapy and other systemic therapies will be delivered as close to home as possible where this is safe to do so.

30. QUALITY To reduce cancer inequalities: Pledge 26: By the end of 2008 all networks will have developed rigorous plans that are aimed at reducing the health inequalities experienced by their populations.The inequalities in cancer mortality rates will then be rigorously monitored by the SHA. To commission world class cancer services: Pledge 27: PCTs in the North West commit to the DH world class commissioning programme and the use of the cancer commissioning toolkit when available, through which standardised care across the North West can be monitored.

31. Network Objectives 2008 - 2012 • Early Detection and Prevention • Ensuring better treatment • Living with and beyond cancer • Reducing health inequalities

32. Network Objectives 2008 - 2012 • Delivering care in the most appropriate setting • Ensuring delivery and maintaining progress • Building capability and capacity