Victoria Lung and Colorectal OCPs be prioritised by all eight adult Integrated Cancer Services. Steps 2: Patient presentation through to and including Step 5: Care after initial treatment VIC Ovarian - state wide initiative NSW Lung - across NSW Step 2: Patient presentation, initial investigations and referral, and Step 3: Diagnosis, staging and treatment planning NSW Ovarian – Localised pilot Step 1: Prevention and early detection, through to and including, Step 7: End-of-life care Northern Territory Head and Neck cancers Step 2 : Presentation Step 3: Initial Investigation and Referral through to Diagnosis and Staging Step 4: Treatment Planning to Treatment South Australia Oesophagogastric cancer and colorectal cancer Focussed on data collection and reporting relating to recommended timeline benchmarks Queensland Lung cancer, Head and Neck cancer Step 2: Presentation, initial investigations and referral Step 3: Diagnosis, staging and treatment planning Step 4: Treatment Tasmania Lung cancer Step 3 and Step 4 High glioma (HGG) Considered the pathway using retrospective data including: Multidisciplinary diagnosis, staging and treatment planning and implementation Clinical enrolment Referral to palliative care services, identifying referrals to allied health services Western Australia All OCPs All steps ACT Lung cancer and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) OCPs Step 3: Diagnosis and treatment planning and Step 4: Treatment In 2016 the Commonwealth engaged Zest to develop a Framework for Optimal Cancer Care Pathways in Practice and a Communications Strategy to jurisdictions in the early stages of adoption of the OCPs. Jurisdictions were then responsible for implementation of the OCPs. In July 2017, each jurisdiction provided a report on their early adoption approach and achievements for OCPs in 2016-17. As the implementation in 2016-17 was an early adoption pilot the jurisdictional reports focus on the lessons learned for broader, ongoing implementation and it is these issues that this Summary focuses on.
improve the practical support available to patients, their carers and families so that they can better navigate the complex cancer journey. Initiative 2 - Efficient and effective cancer services This initiative develops cancer service capability frameworks and effective health professional role delineation within networked services to maximise efficiencies and reduce unwarranted variations in cancer outcomes. This will be achieved by working with consumers, jurisdictions and peak health professional bodies to establish: the piloting of innovative use of the cancer workforce including service efficiencies, scope of practice, and new models of shared care for cancer treatment agreed capability frameworks for cancer services with defined linkages to primary care, regional cancer services and specialist tertiary teaching hospitals, and the promotion of safe, high quality cancer care by agreed role delineation for cancer services, specific tumours and sub-specialties to optimise outcomes. Initiative 3 - cancer treatment Implementing new research findings and best-practice treatment protocols substantially improves cancer outcomes. This initiative will support consistent, evidence-based care for all people affected by cancer. It will promote: better use of multidisciplinary initial assessment and treatment planning cancer teams across both the public and private sector. Telehealth technology will be used to support multidisciplinary care in regional areas where feasible b) the implementation of new research findings, evidence-based treatment and care, commencing with the national adoption of the NSW Cancer Institute’s eviQ database as an easily accessible, consistent, on-line, point-of-care treatment resource for cancer health professionals.