Summary

In response to challenges posed by the financial crisis, ageing population and a real need to deliver quality and personalised healthcare services, there has been a meteoric rise in moving from traditional, conventional approaches to innovative patient-centric ‘Managed Care’ models.

This article highlights the understanding of the workforce, financial challenges in healthcare and transforming traditional management of care to a more sophisticated coordinated model of care. Enhanced, well-organised and harmonised care can be delivered, by providing care coordinators and clinical staff with an effective digital solution for coordinated care in cancer pathways.

You will learn about:

• The need for coordinated cancer care and its challenges
• New personalised cancer care models: England and Northern Ireland
• Key factors for an effective pathway implementation
• WelLPRES: Breast cancer follow-up pathway use-case
• Future intentions and much more