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 Cancer Services and Palliative CareHillingdon HospitalTelephone numbers:
See also: Lynda Jackson Macmillan
Centre website The Cancer Services in the Trust are dedicated to providing high quality, rapid, comparable cancer services across the UK. Cancer Referral forms are now available on our Trust Extranet website - available only to NHS Healthcare Professionals. The Palliative Care Department is based at Hillingdon Hospital and in the community. A team of specialist nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals provide the very best in palliative care and symptom control for patients with cancer and life-limiting illnesses. Supportive and Palliative Care is primarily directed at providing relief to a terminally-ill person through symptom and pain management. Our experienced team provide the very best in care to all our patients. Our service is linked to the Michael Sobell House Palliative Care Unit at Mount Vernon Hospital and Harlington Hospice. Patient Leaflets
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THE NATIONAL CANCER PLAN
The National Cancer Plan also clearly states that cancer networks will be the organisational model for cancer services to implement the Cancer Plan. Hillingdon Hospital sits within the West London Cancer Network but refer patients for their tertiary care to the Mount Vernon Cancer Network and therefore have a double challenge to work with both networks to plan services and implement change in the delivery of care to cancer patients. To ensure the necessary improvements are delivered across the patient pathway as set out in the Cancer Plan, cancer networks will be responsible for planning services across organisational boundaries, both NHS, voluntary sector and local authorities and to this end it is essential to have Trust representation at the appropriate Cancer Network. Care for cancer patients crosses all sectors of the Health Economy - prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment - both secondary and tertiary, supportive care and specialist palliative care. It is only with whole system thinking and involvement that we will be able to successfully implement the targets and milestones laid out in the NHS Cancer Plan. For example, what currently being undertaken in secondary care could be more appropriately managed in primary care and vice versa; how can we ensure that primary care have access to the services they need in the time that they need them. This cross cutting thinking also applies to the cancer workforce, and the requisite education and training, how can we be more joined up in our approach. An excellent example is the Network District Nurse Training initiative in Palliative Care and Oncology being coordinated by the Hillingdon Hospital Lead Nurse(s) and delivered by both acute and community specialist nurses to nursing professionals across the Health Economy.
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