How Can DXS Help with Cancer Priorities?
Author: Will Brown
Date: 30/04/2021
Cancer continues to be a main focus for the NHS, with ICS’, CCGs and PCNs implementing a variety of national and local initiatives.
Feedback from our partners requested support in the areas of:
- Prevention / Screening
- Earlier Diagnosis
- Symptom Monitoring
- Safety Netting
Included in these tools are:
Templates (with guidance on):
- Referral Criteria
- Screening Criteria
Workflows, Alerts and Patient List Reports (around):
- Safety netting of investigations and referral
- Early warning symptom monitoring
- DNA / abnormal results of tests and outstanding screening
These tools are built using clinical system functionality of reports, templates, and protocols. This ensures minimal training required and more of an awareness and decision of locally adding things to various toolbars or quick launches (depending on the clinical system).
All content is linked directly to the centrally managed and distributed Point-of-Care referral forms, patient leaflets, local and national pathways, and treatment services.
Benefits for ICS / CCGs
- Increase in quality of referrals
- Improvements
- Meeting DES network contracts
- Improvements of screening uptakes
- Standardisation of care and referrals between clinicians and locums
- Meeting PCN drivers
- Supporting quality improvement projects and initiatives
- Increase in earlier diagnosis and allowing more treatment options
- Improved overall patient experience
- Improved cancer survival
- Shorter waiting times