Specialist areas
Peer review
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Peer review is the process by which cancer networks, and their constituent organisations, are assessed against a set of national standards.
These national standards, or quality measures, found in the Manual of Cancer Services (2.56MB PDF file) are applied to specific entities within the cancer networks:
- Network board
- PCT collective commissioning group
- Network Site Specific Groups
- Locality groups (40.3KB PDF)
- Network cross cutting groups
- MDTs - see site specific pages for relevant quality measures
- Cross cutting services
- Specialist Palliative Care (61.9KB PDF)
- Cancer Imaging (12.9KB PDF)
- Chemotherapy (203KB PDF)
- Cancer pathology (18KB PDF)
- Radiotherapy (80.2KB PDF)
- Cancer Research Network (858KB PDF)
To see the network's current compliance against all the quality measures, go to CQuINS, the online tool for the quality improvement of cancer care through self assessment and peer review.
Reports and action plans
- Sussex Cancer Network peer review report 2005 (1.19MB PDF)
- Sussex Cancer Network peer review action plan for all tumour sites- updated September 2007 (245KB xls)
- Sussex Cancer Network haematology peer review report 2007 (218KB PDF)
- Sussex Cancer Network haematology peer review action plan June 2007 (31.5KB xls)
- Sussex Cancer Network Colorectal and Head, Neck & Thyroid peer review report 2007 (351KB PDF)
- Sussex Cancer Network Colorectal peer review action plan 2007 (42KB xls)
- Sussex Cancer Network Head, Neck & Thyroid peer review action plan 2007 (48KB xls)