ChemoCare Networking Project
ChemoCare is a multidisciplinary prescribing and cancer management system that has been the standard system for Trusts within the North London Cancer Network since its introduction in 2001. It has clear benefits over manual prescribing, the most important of which is a demonstrated reduction in prescribing errors. To date, all installations at NLCN Trusts have been stand-alone instances.
Following the award of a National Cancer Action Team grant, the NLCN has developed an ambitious plan to build a networked ChemoCare solution based on a hub provisionally centred around UCLH, with spokes at Royal Free, North Middlesex, the Whittington, Barnet & Chase Farm and Princess Alexandra Hospitals, all linking into the hub.
The benefits of this system include:
- enabling continuity of care for patients that move from site to site (e.g. initially seen centrally and receive their chemotherapy at their local hospital)
- enhanced patient safety, more accurate recording of lifetime dosage limits or recording of critical test results
- maintaining accuracy of patient records across sites
- improving efficiency of pharmacy, eliminating waste and duplicated effort of maintaining treatment protocols at multiple sites
- improved clinical governance
- improved accessibility to clinical trials and research data
This is also clearly in line with national initiatives such as the NHS Cancer Plan.
In this section status updates, roughly monthly, are available fo rcancer managers and other interested parties.
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