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Explore the challenges facing cancer care in the UK and strategies for reducing costs while improving quality and treating more patients. Learn about the need for efficiency, leadership, and a multi-agency approach, and how history can guide us forward. Embrace experimentation, technology, and teamwork to overcome obstacles and create sustainable, purpose-driven solutions.
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Cancer Care in the UK 2015 The Challenge Ahead - Driving Down Costs, Treating More, Whilst Increasing Quality
The Challenge • More cancer not less – I in 2 by the end of the decade • Increased use of all modalities • Increasing costs e.g. inflation on drugs • Able to treat recurrence – more patients • A requirement to make savings/efficiencies • Limited flexibility – it’s a people business • 15,000 USCs per annum to find 4000 cancers • So what is the view of the NHS and how can it move forward Can history teach us something ?
Leadership • Strategic Level • Operational level • Strong • Determined • Knowledgeable • Lead from the front
Optimum equipment • If not the best the most reliable • Fit for purpose
Exploit technology • New technologies can help efficiency and optimise what we need to do.
Plan and prioritise • Obtain information • Create a plan • Identify your priorities
Experiment • Be prepared to experiment, fail and try again
Multi agency approach • Work with others to achieve a shared goal
Luck • A little bit of luck goes a long way !
Focus and Spirit • Esprit De Corps – the few
Pride – purpose - sustainability • Part of the next generation
Conclusion Spirit and determination is everything Teams in adversity often do better and history provides multiple examples of this. In these challenging times the NHS needs to plan and prioritise but fundamentally maintain a spirit in order to deliver a ‘can do’ mentality – that way we can get more from less.