Neil Bayman, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Medical Director at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Neighbourhood Oncology in Greater Manchester and East and Mid-Cheshire organises care around people’s lives rather than around hospital buildings and appointments. It reimagines how cancer care is delivered, with people increasingly getting on with their lives after a diagnosis and living with cancer as a long-term condition.
This new Neighbourhood Oncology care model brings more cancer treatment, monitoring and support closer to and into patients’ homes, whilst maintaining the safety, expertise and oversight of The Christie specialist cancer centre.
The ambition is simple: make home and neighbourhood-based care the default wherever it is clinically safe and appropriate. This includes expanding access to treatments and tests via Christie Home (which last year delivered over 10000 treatments to Christie patients at home), managing acute oncology conditions without the need for admission to hospital where safe to do so, and integrating supportive care to prevent complications from cancer and cancer treatment.
The goal is better patient experience, reduced travel burden, more equitable access to care and a more sustainable model for the future as the number of people living with cancer continues to rise. Most importantly, it allows us to redesign services around people’s lives, rather than expecting people to organise their lives around healthcare services.”
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