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Cancer commissioning: fit for purpose in the new NHS architecture?
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Welcome to the December 2012 issue of Cancer Services Forum.
This month's issue features a report from the 2012 London Cancer New Drugs Group annual meeting. The report focuses on the future of cancer commissioning and quality in the NHS, and summarises the informative and thought-provoking presentations and discussions that took place.
Equality in access to cancer treatment: a crossroad in UK cancer services?
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Welcome to the October 2011 issue of Cancer Services Forum.
This month’s issue features an update on key points of interest in cancer services written by Succinct Healthcare Communication’s own Carolyn Staines. The update looks at The Lancet Oncology Commission‘s report, Delivering affordable cancer care in high-income countries, which considers the major problems concerning all those involved with the planning, delivering, receiving and paying for cancer care in the UK.
QIPP: the cancer drugs perspective
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Welcome to the August 2011 issue of Cancer Services Forum.
This month we feature an article on QIPP—Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention—written by Richard Hancox, Chief Operating Officer at Nuneaton and Bedworth Clinical Commissioning Group. Richard looks at QIPP from the perspective of cancer drugs prescribing, and considers how the QIPP agenda is being used to address the current financial problems affecting the NHS.
Key points for cancer services
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Welcome to the July 2011 issue of Cancer Services Forum.
This month’s issue features an update on key points of interest in cancer services written by Succinct Healthcare Communication’s own Carolyn Staines. The update includes a look at the current state of the NHS, a look at the King’s Fund report, How to improve cancer survival: Explaining England’s relatively poor rates, and cancer service reorganisation in London.
Working in partnership with the pharmaceutical industry: observations from an NHS pharmacist
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Now is a time of upheaval and change within the NHS. It is also an opportunity for us all to reconsider some of our preconceptions and prejudices, which may have become entrenched over the past few years. Will Horsley is never one to shy away from such challenges and, in this month’s issue of Cancer Services Forum, he provides a typically thought-provoking article on why we should all think again about our working relationships with the pharmaceutical industry.
Also, for those of you who haven’t quite had time to digest all the detail of the proposed changes to the NHS and to cancer services over recent months, Carolyn Staines provides an extremely useful summary of the major points affecting funding and commissioning, as well as key issues from the recently published Improving outcomes: a strategy for cancer.
This house believes the £200 million Cancer Drug Fund is an answer to cancer drug access issues
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Welcome to the November issue of Cancer Services Forum. It’s hard to believe that 2010 is almost over, where has the time gone?
This month’s issue links to last month’s, which featured the Cancer Network Pharmacists Forum response to the government’s £50 million Interim Cancer Drug Fund, and focuses on a special debate session from the 2010 British Oncology Pharmacy Association’s (BOPA) Annual Symposium centred on the £200 million Cancer Drug Fund. The Cancer Drug Fund comes into effect in April 2011.
