Efficiency hub

France introduced the ‘right to be forgotten’ law, which states that some cancer survivors are exempt from disclosing their history of cancer to insurers. The ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to reduce the socioeconomic burden on cancer survivors by improving their access to loans and insurance.

Eurocarers has created an essential care and cancer toolkit to educate carers about cancer, help carers come to terms with their situation and encourage them to evaluate their needs and seek help. The toolkit is based on research and input from carers, people with cancer and healthcare professionals across the European Union.

To help address the needs of cancer survivors, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) developed the Patient Guide on Survivorship. It is directed at survivors and can be used by carers, family, and friends of people who have or previously had cancer, as well as healthcare professionals.

Sweden was one of the first countries to implement a government-funded national cancer register – a centralised database that collects healthcare information about all people diagnosed with cancer.

Miscommunication can have a negative impact on the quality of cancer care delivered to patients, but bultidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings can improve communication between healthcare professionals involved in cancer care.

The Choosing Wisely® campaign was set up to reduce waste in healthcare and encourage evidence-based doctor–patient communication about appropriate and necessary care.

CancerLinQ^® is a rapid learning health system that summarises large amounts of real-world data in real time. It collects both structured and unstructured data through an automatic daily feed from electronic health records and other sources.

Systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACTs), including chemotherapy, are provided across the English National Health Service (NHS) – and real-world data on the resulting patient outcomes can help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cancer care.

Imaging tests can be frightening for children, resulting in many paediatric patients requiring sedation for these procedures. GE Healthcare introduced the Adventure Series™ to tackle this problem.