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This section of the Network website contains information relating to the Cancer Information agenda.
The NHS Cancer Information Strategy aims to:
- Ensure that accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible information about cancer is accessible to all those who need it.
- Enhance the quality of care given to patients with actual or suspected cancer, by ensuring that their needs for information are met in a timely, sensitive and appropriate way and by ensuring good communication between healthcare sectors.
- Underpin the Government's commitment to modernise cancer care in this country and to monitor progress towards the achievement of specific targets to reduce the death rate from cancer.
The Cancer Information Strategy builds on and connects to existing policy initiatives, in particular:
- The White Paper The New NHS, Modern, Dependable (1997) which outlined the government's ten year strategy to modernise the NHS.
- The Calman/Hine Report A Framework for Commissioning Cancer Services (1995) which introduced the concept of Cancer Units and Cancer Centres and emphasised the importance of monitoring and audit of the quality of service provision.
- Improving Outcomes cancer guidance, which sets out evidence-based guidance for individual cancers and tumour groups, to complement the Calman/Hine Report. Guidance on breast, colorectal, lung and gynaecological cancers have already been published, guidance on upper gastro-intestinal, urological, haematological and head and neck cancers is to follow.
- The NHS Information Strategy Information for Health (1998) which set out a programme for meeting the information needs of the whole NHS. This Cancer Information Strategy is intended to be one strand within the overall development of Information for Health.
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