Cancer Quality of Life Survey

Links and further reading

For information about the NHS Cancer Programme, please follow this link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/

Information about the Programme’s commitments to improving personalised care and quality of life outcomes are provided here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/living/

To understand the wider plans for improving the NHS, please take a look at the ‘NHS Long Term Plan’:
https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/

If you would like to understand more about the National Disease Registration Service, which is part of NHS England, this can be found here:
https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs

Resources for Primary Care

The resources below can help you to support patients with their quality of life.

• The Cancer Care Map and Macmillan’s In Your Area are both examples of online directories that aim to link people to sources of support for self-management and peer support. Your local cancer centre or Cancer Alliance may have its own directory or app.


• The NHS website has more information on Personalised Care and Support Planning.


• Macmillan’s resources for GPs webpage. Here you can find their quality improvement toolkit which includes a Personalised Cancer Care module, guides and templates for Cancer Care Reviews and End of Treatment Summaries


• Macmillan also have a guide to providing personalised care for people living with cancer including holistic needs assessment, and care and support planning.


• Education and training on personalised care is offered by NHS England.