Cancer care. Service redesign. A dangerous game to play.
Duplicating improvements in breast cancer services to less common tumour types brings a raft of new challenges. Establishing multidisciplinary teams means health professionals moving and changing professional base, which could destabalise existing services. Individual trusts' cancer plans need to take account of their effect on other services to ease the pressure on PCT capacity planning.
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Royal Surrey County Hospital Trust.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards*; D009013:Morale; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom