MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
MDT Co-ordination
1. Facilitation of multi-disciplinary team meetings to ensure the meetings run effectively and are well co-ordinated and all relevant patients are discussed.
2. Liaise with clinical and administrative staff to create lists for circulation prior to the MDT meetings.
3. Attend and facilitate each MDT, and use the video conferencing equipment, as needed.
4. Distribute outcomes to all concerned following the meetings and ensure that this information is correct and complete and recorded on CWP.
5. Report the current position of the patient on their cancer pathway to clinicians during meetings so that they can make clinical decisions based on this information.
6. Support the teams in the collection of evidence, documentation and/or data for the National Peer Review Programme.
7. Ensure that the MDT activities are recorded and the results documented, eg attendance records, highlighting to the Cancer Services Manager / Lead Nurse should any members attendance fall below the required standard.
8. Ensure that MDT members are kept up to date with the upcoming schedule of MDT meetings and are aware of any changes to date, venue etc.
9. Ensure appropriate cover at all MDT meetings during periods of sickness or annual leave.
PATIENT PATHWAY TRACKING
1. Coordinate the administrative pathway of patients with a confirmed cancer to ensure that they meet National Cancer Waiting time standards.
2. Proactively track cancer patients and escalate all potential delays to the Cancer Performance Manager/Divisional Managers according to the agreed escalation policy to ensure actions are taken to avoid any breaches.
3. Ensure up to date and relevant information/data is collected to enable the full and accurate production of the PTL (Patient tracking list) and attend weekly meetings to discuss.
4. Maintain the systems and processes required to support the tracking of patients in their respective targets and identify service improvements where necessary.
5. Provide detailed breach analysis reports within 5 days of the date of the first definitive treatment date (FDT) for any 62 day patients with waiting times outside of national standards.
6. Liaise with colleagues from other Trusts to ensure that data is accurate for patients transferred from other hospitals to undergo treatment.
7. Validate all treatments and pathways within one working day of the treatment date.
8. Ensure that exceptions and alterations to the waiting times of individual patients are appropriately supported by documentation and can be audited.
9. Maintain the generic 62 day CaRPs inbox, processing and registering referrals for patients on a 62 day pathway in accordance with the SOP.
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