The future study is likely to be of particular interest and use to service commissioners and NHS cancer managers.
Regarding professional group, 82.6% (n = 219) reported themselves as MDT Coordinators (Group 1), the remaining (Group 2) were: 7.5% (n = 20) administrators, 3.4% (n = 9) cancer managers, 3.4% (n = 8) nurses and 3% (n = 8) were doctors (Grouping the respondents into Group 1 and 2 was to see if other health professionals' views are similar to those who coordinate MDT meeting as their primary job).
It is initially investigating all 14 cancer pathways, with each examined by a cancer specialist, GP, senior nurse, cancer manager and other support staff, and will remain in place "until all aspects of the incident are resolved and ongoing action plans agreed".
These prototype quality criteria were subsequently reviewed by an independent panel consisting of a consultant radiologist, oncologist and nurse with bowel cancer expertise as well as a senior NHS cancer manager.
The possible influence derived from individual cancer case managers was difficult to eliminate.
The priority given by cancer network managers to collection of data by services, rather than to the use of data for management, reflected the priorities of central government, which had set targets for completeness (especially for waiting times) rather than supporting networks in the more complex role of understanding and interpreting available data.
The cause was prostate cancer, his manager, Robert Malcolm, said.
Luciano Pavarotti, the superstar tenor, has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer, his manager said yesterday.
As a cancer data manager for an acute foundation trust, his responsibilities would include tracking cancer patient information against national targets.
The singer, bassist and songwriter was 69, and had fought "a long and stubborn battle with cancer," his manager, Stewart Young, said in a statement.
The administration increased the number of cancer case manager from 6 to 14 and included all cancer types in the program.
