Making quality count

2010-02-08T14:33:30Z

As part of Macmillan’s policy team I am working to make sure the NHS provide improvements in cancer care. This has its difficulties as they amount of money available to spend on cancer is not going up as much as we would like. Although we are fighting this we have to work with the reality, so we want to give some suggestions to the government of why giving good care saves them money. Have any of you got examples of how, by getting the support or information you needed, this actually saved the NHS money? If so we would love to hear about it so we can use it in our discussions with the NHS and government.

The NHS is having to save money over the next few years!

2010-01-20T14:56:45Z

Over the next few years the NHS is going to have to save significant amounts of money in some areas, even in the provision of cancer services, in order to cover the increasing costs of health care. They are working on ideas of how to increase the cost effectiveness of the services they provide but keep the quality of care patients receive as high as possible. At Macmillan we are committed to make sure that quality of the care people receive gets better and want to make sure NHS does not just cut services to save money.

We would be very interested to here your views as many of you have first hand experience of receiving NHS services and are well placed to make useful suggestions.

Any thoughts?

Stephen

Making quality count

The NHS is having to save money over the next few years!