Efficiency hub

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.

Active surveillance aims to prevent overtreatment by closely monitoring men with low-risk prostate cancer without them having to undergo cancer treatment.

Researchers in France developed a web-based algorithm to help oncologists take action at the first signs of a potential lung cancer relapse.

The Martini-Klinik, a specialist prostate cancer clinic in Germany, systematically measures the quality of its care using outcomes that are most relevant to patients. Examples include rates of incontinence and erectile dysfunction following treatment.