Improving Outcomes Guidance
Cancer service guidance supports the implementation of The NHS Cancer Plan for England, and the NHS Plan for Wales Improving Health in Wales. The focus of the cancer service guidance is to guide the commissioning of services and is therefore different from clinical practice guidelines.

Health professionals should take the NICE cancer service guidance into account when planning, commissioning and organising services for cancer patients. This guidance can be used to identify gaps in local provision and to check the appropriateness of existing services.

 Name Publication Date Direct Link
Improving Outcomes in Lung Cancer 1998
Improving Outcomes in Gynaecological Cancers 1999
Improving Outcomes in Upper Gastro-intestinal Cancers June 2001
Improving Outcomes in Breast Cancer - Update August 2002
Improving Outcomes in Urological Cancers September 2002
Improving Outcomes in Haemato-Oncology Cancer October 2003
Improving Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer June 2004
Familial breast cancer June 2004
Head and Neck Cancers November 2004
Lung cancer: diagnosis and treatment 23rd February 2005
Children and young people with cancer August 2005
Skin Tumours Feb 2006
Sarcoma March 2006
Brain/CNS Tumours June 2006
Prostate Cancer Feb 2008
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