Improving Cancer Care Efficiency: Innovative Patient-Centred Approaches – A Conversation with Enric Barba

As part of All.Can’s mission to unite stakeholders and promote actionable strategies for cancer care efficiency, we are proud to release a thought-provoking new video featuring Enric Barba, Patient Expert and Patient Advocate at Asociación Melanoma España.

This insightful conversation explores the critical role of placing patients at the core of cancer care processes to maximize efficiency. Enric emphasizes that achieving the best possible outcomes requires optimizing human, pharmaceutical, and technological resources while prioritizing the needs of patients. By integrating patients’ perspectives into cancer care pathways and clinical trials, healthcare systems can foster collaboration and innovation, leading to better outcomes and resource efficiency.

Efficiency in cancer care is about more than resource management. It requires fostering trust between patients and healthcare providers, empowering patients with training and education to engage meaningfully with clinical trials, and ensuring that their voices influence decisions about treatment and care. In the video, Enric also discusses the importance of having robust metrics to evaluate progress and measure whether healthcare systems are truly improving efficiency. Without these metrics, accountability and meaningful improvements remain out of reach.

Lastly, the video also underscores the need for governments to allocate sufficient funding to innovative drugs and technologies, as access to these advancements directly impacts patient survival rates and care quality. Raising public awareness about early detection is equally critical, and Enric advocates for annual campaigns led by governments to focus on specific cancers and encourage early diagnosis.

Aligned with the principles outlined in the All.Can Action Guide for Efficient Cancer Care, this video reinforces the idea that true efficiency can only be achieved by putting patients at the core of all cancer care activities. By fostering collaboration, driving awareness, and prioritizing equitable access to innovation, we can transform healthcare systems into models of both efficiency and inclusivity.

Through a series of interviews, All.Can aims to amplify the voices of patients and clinicians, transforming their insights into impactful digital advocacy materials. This initiative seeks to make cancer care efficiency not just an abstract concept, but a tangible, actionable goal for healthcare systems worldwide.

Join us in advancing the conversation about rethinking efficiency in cancer care. Together, we can build systems that are not only efficient but also equitable, personalized, and patient-centred.