ABSTRACT
This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services. Using a tool kit style approach drawing on examples of successful past projects and case studies to provide evidence of good practice it describes how to plan and implement different stages of user involvement enabling organisations to draw on user experience and expertise to evaluate develop and improve the quality of service that they provide. Members of regional cancer networks multidisciplinary cancer care teams and all those involved in the NHS cancer services will find this toolkit interesting reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|20 pages
Cancer
section 2|24 pages
Cancer treatments
section 3|12 pages
Supportive and palliative care
section 4|20 pages
Cancer pain
section 5|22 pages
Symptoms
section 6|34 pages
Communication
section 7|26 pages
Dying and bereavement
section 8|16 pages
Spirituality and equality