Personalised Care Episode 5: Cancer Care Reviews

The Greater Manchester Cancer Podcast

Personalised care is fundamental to delivering better quality care that is meaningful to the individual, supporting improvements in health and wellbeing. This will also help to empower people to manage their care and the impact of their cancer. Everyone is different and will have different concerns when they are diagnosed with cancer; therefore we need to ensure that patients are treated as people and they have the opportunity to discuss all of their concerns, whether during a hospital appointment or with their GP, and get the support they need.

In Greater Manchester, we have a large programme of work looking at all aspects of personalised care, and this new series of the GM Cancer Podcast will look at some of the specific areas that we’re working on.

This episode looks at the Cancer Care Review (CCR), a conversation between a patient and their primary care team about their cancer journey. The CCR is patient led, meaning it is a discussion about things that are important to the patient, and may cover things like their understanding of the diagnosis and the treatment so far, any symptoms they have been struggling with either as an effect of the cancer or the treatment, what support they have or may need, and how best the primary care team can support them as they continue on their cancer journey. It is a holistic review, focusing not only on physical symptoms but on the psychological, social, financial, and other impacts of cancer.

The guests on this episode are:
Tracey Cowburn - Macmillan Cancer Care Coordinator, Denton, Audenshaw & Droylsden PCN
Dr Steve Churchill - GP in Trafford and Former Personalised Care Lead for Primary Care