Despite evidence showing that high-quality care pathways can improve survival and outcomes, only a small number of countries and regions have established formal care pathways for lung cancer. It is important to build on this initial progress and underscore the value of care pathways to inspire future pathway development.
Care pathways for lung cancer: building a foundation for optimal care report
Several countries are in the process of establishing formal care pathways for lung cancer, and evidence from their implementation shows that these pathways are improving survival and outcomes.
It is important to build on this progress and underscore the value of care pathways to inspire their future development.
Our report explores the essential role care pathways play in delivering best-practice lung cancer care. Its recommendations aim to demonstrate to policymakers the importance of designing and implementing location-specific care pathways for lung cancer.
Patient navigation for lung cancer: an essential component of care
A patient navigator is someone who guides people with a particular condition through the health system – helping to address unmet needs, mitigate barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment, and promote holistic, person-centred care.
Patient navigation has the potential to deliver equitable access to best-practice care and transform outcomes, but this has yet to be fully realised for people with lung cancer.
Our report explores why patient navigation is vital to high-quality lung cancer care, advising health system leaders and decision-makers to develop formal patient navigation programmes, and providing recommendations to optimise these initiatives.
Care pathways for lung cancer webinar
Building on our report Care pathways for lung cancer: building a foundation for optimal care, this webinar brought together experts from around the world to share their insights and discuss opportunities to improve the experiences and outcomes of people with lung cancer through the development, implementation and optimisation of care pathways.
The webinar provided a forum for participants to further explore the key components of a care pathway, with the aim of informing health system leaders and policymakers of the importance of adopting them in their settings.
Policy engagement resources
Our suite of policy engagement resources supports lung cancer advocates in communicating key messages to decision-makers, so they can advocate for the development and implementation of care pathways for lung cancer.
Report summary
The visual summary of the report Care pathways for lung cancer: building a foundation for optimal care was developed in response to an observation that low awareness among policymakers is impeding progress towards the development and implementation of care pathways for lung cancer.
Standalone figures
Our fully referenced key figures from the report Care pathways for lung cancer: building a foundation for optimal care can be used in presentations and other materials to demonstrate how action must be taken to improve care by taking a pathways approach.
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