Provide strategic primary care clinical leadership and educational resource at regional level
Support Cancer Alliances in improving cancer pathways and reducing variation in care provision through the sharing of best practice and innovation
Enhance CRUK’s engagement with and influencing of primary care and national decision making in a systematic way
To find out the latest about our work with primary care, please contact healthsystemsengagement@cancer.org.uk
Development of a module on “How to improve the quality of your referral” in response to secondary care reporting poor quality referrals affecting 62 day performance
GP education to raise awareness of the qFIT test reiterating the difference between this test and the screening FIT
Cancer Maps online tool now sits on the Gateway C website and are now the most visited site on Gateway C. Recorded a series of educational case studies to sit alongside them
Promoting SEA analysis cross the Alliance, with individual feedback to practices on the submitted cases
Chairing the FIT working group(s) and mobilisation across the Cancer Alliance footprint(s)
Electronic requesting of FIT according to NICE criteria with safety netting of request by bowel screening hub. The conversion rate for positive tests is currently 23% of requests
Developed an Integrated Lower GI Pathway across Alliance footprint
Agreed pan-London approach; provided expert support to STPs/CCGs implementing this approach
Developed modelling of expected endoscopy and FIT laboratory demand that has been adapted for use at national level by CADEAS
Led on information sourcing and meeting with localities who have already undertaken the Lung Health checks ahead of the NHSE announcement of pilot sites
Working with STP with respect to the planning of the lung cancer screening pilot which will be based in Coventry
Produced a map-infographic of the NOLCP to improve understanding of a complex pathway
Development of NSCS pathway for patients/piloting of vague symptoms clinics
Negotiation of a STT rather than DA model for upper GI cancers
15 July 2020
