Grant: Project Grant

Cancer treatment is complex; patients see many healthcare providers in many settings to receive life-saving treatments. When patients with cancer move between providers or settings care can break down and can compromise the care and health of patients with cancer. Patients with head and neck cancer move between a particularly high number of healthcare providers and healthcare settings (hospital, ICU, cancer centre) because of how complex their treatment is. Interventions have been shown to improve the continuity of care between healthcare providers and settings which increases the chance of having positive outcomes after cancer treatment. We will develop an evidence-based intervention (care bundle) with patients, healthcare providers and healthcare leaders to improve the continuity of care during cancer treatment for patients with head and neck cancer. We will use a formal process for engaging these groups to help develop the care bundle. Then we will prepare to test the care bundle to see if improves care, health and cancer outcomes, and satisfaction with care.