The Thames Valley Cancer Alliance was established in 2013 and is made up of patients and/or their carers, clinicians, other professionals and stakeholders with an interest in or responsibility for cancer care.
Cancer care is one of the Five Year Forward View’s key priorities - focusing on prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatment and living with cancer. Having access to more skilled staff in the right areas will be key to delivering on that strategy.
The National Cancer Transformation Board have published a wide range of specific steps designed to increase prevention, speed up diagnosis, improve the experience of patients and help people living with and beyond the disease in Achieving World Class Cancer Outcomes: Taking the strategy forward.
As medicine advances, health needs change and society develops, so the NHS has to continually move forward so that in 10 years’ time we have a service fit for the future.
