Achieving efficiency in cancer care: insights from the All.Can Efficiency Hub webinar

Cancer care must be made more timely, coordinated and person-centred, but how exactly can we achieve this? A recent webinar, organised by The Health Policy Partnership for All.Can International, set out to answer just this question. Experts in data science, primary care and service redesign shared practical and scalable solutions that can be adapted to different contexts.

As health systems are under increasing pressure, addressing inefficiencies that can delay diagnosis, deliver fragmented care and undermine outcomes is becoming more important in cancer care.

The session, hosted by All.Can president Christobel Saunders and drawing on examples from All.Can’s Efficiency Hub, delivered a key message that effective, scalable solutions already exist and can lead to substantial improvements when introduced locally. Cross‑sector collaboration, shared learning and evidence‑based innovation were cross-cutting themes throughout.

The three experts addressed the following topics:

• data linking for coordinated decision-making (Dr Raquel Benitez, PancreOS)
• tools for primary care clinicians to support timely referrals and reduce diagnostic delays (Anthony Cunliffe, Cancer Decision Support Tool)
• system re-design to streamline lung cancer pathways (Aurelia L. Roman, Alberta Thoracic Oncology Programme).

The Health Policy Partnership has been a partner to All.Can since 2016, supporting All.Can’s secretariat.

To access the webinar recording as well as other examples of innovation in cancer care, see the Efficiency Hub.