23 Mar 2009
The cancer disease area of the QoF is worth 11 points, generating a payment of £1,370 in 2007...Cancer: Clinical Indicators Target (%) Points Records Register of patients with cancer, excluding non-melanotic skin cancers, diagnosed after 1 April 2003 Register 5 Ongoing management Patients with cancer diagnosed within the past 18 months, with a review recorded within six ...
24 Nov 2011
| by Dr Liliana Risi
CCG cancer lead Dr Liliana Risi says locums must develop skills to become commissioning leaders....As a locum GP and in my experience as the clinical lead for cancer and end-of-life care (EOLC ...
to be standardised. Historically some of the lead posts have been funded through public health (as is my cancer lead ...
locum GP and cancer lead for Tower Hamlets CCG, east London. LRISI@nhs.net
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24 Jun 2010
Winner: Post-cancer treatment clinic - Dr Ross and Robinson Practice, Glasgow...The district nursing team at this Scottish practice launched a clinic for cancer patients who ...
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District nurse Phyllis Hutchison said she had visited a cancer patient who was comparatively well ...
to review patients who had completed, or nearly completed cancer treatment, to ensure their general health ...
23 Mar 2009
five will be from cancer, seven from organ failure, one to two, sudden death, and six to seven ...
. The guidance says there is a growing impetus to improve end of life care for patients both with cancer and non-cancer ...
have not had a palliative care register before may find it easier to begin with cancer patients ...
26 Feb 2010
| by Jo Bellinger
in London. Soon after, a Canadian cancer surgeon coined the term 'palliative care'. The public, GPs ...
at home. People think hospices only care for patients with cancer, this is another myth. While it is true most referrals are cancer patients, non-cancer patients also fall within our remit. Most UK ...
05 Nov 2009
| by Polly Ellison
brief was to set up a dermatology clinic at the surgery. 'I had been doing skin cancer work within ...
week at the hospital doing a skin cancer clinic and a surgical list. 'What I do in the surgery ...
dermatology work is in a niche area, concentrating on low-risk skin cancers, precancerous skin lesions caused ...
04 Mar 2010
understanding of quality monitoring under the agreed contract. Prostate cancer The proposed transfer of follow-up of prostate cancer patients to primary/community care has led to the realisation that one PBC ...
and NHS Stoke need to interact with neighbouring PCTs. This led to working with the Greater Midland Cancer ...
05 Aug 2010
pressing concerns.
What it covers Policies will typically cover some forms of cancer, terminal illness ...
10 Mar 2011
| by Dr Marion Sloan
inequalities in the city.
Cancer screening For example, uptake rates for bowel cancer screening illustrate ...
09 May 2008
t have what was screened for. Then there is the risk of unintended findings. For example a breast cancer screen may not show breast cancer but it may show something else unexplained which will then have ...