Criteria in Europe for Cancer Centres following the OECI Henk Hummel OECI Accreditation and Designation Executive Officer Leiden Dr. Katrien Van Look
Background 2 Founded members Working groups Mission: Linking cancer centres Coordinate their actions Inter/Multidisciplinarity Quality of cancer care Integration of research Innovation Patients involvement
Working groups Biobanks and Molecular Pathology, Giorgia Stanta Education and training: A. Paradiso, Bari Prevention and early diagnoses, C. Harrison Cost-benefit, L. Steuten EurocanPlatform, Ulrik Ringborg Accreditation and Designation, M. Saghatchian 3
Quality assessment in health care/oncology Internationally JACIE: European Eusoma: breast cancer ESMO palliative care ISO9001 DKG: Germany FNCLCC: French NHS: UK Accreditation Canada OECI ISQua 4
5 02/06/2016 Accreditation programme : Components Standards and criteria for quality multidisciplinary cancer care delivered in cancer centres throughout Europe A tool to collect standardised and quality data from approved cancer centres, to measure treatments patterns and outcomes A process allowing to survey the cancer centres in order to assess compliance with the standards
6 02/06/2016 Main goal: A&D programme OECI helping (cancer) centres to implement and improve a quality system for oncological care using the standards and peer review system
Characteristics of the programme Voluntary quality improvement programme in Europe Focus on consistency of total (cancer) organisation/centre Databank with quality data of participating centres (benchmarking – exchange best-practices) Auditors are oncology experts and professionally trained European quality standards brings more consistent quality in Europe An opportunity for centres to distinguish from others 7 02/06/2016
8 Qualitative standards
9 Qualitative questionnaire
10 02/06/2016 Focus of the standards Comprehesiveness: Planning and organisation of integrated care Multidisciplinary care Integration and translation of research into care Education for professionals Patient satisfaction Constant quality improvement
11 02/06/2016 Quantitative questionnaire Five chapters -data collection-
Designation 12 To distinguish four types of cancer institutes Preliminary designation according to quantitative data from questionnaire Final designation: check of quality criteria and consistency of all parts during peer review visit
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Why accreditation? Overall improvement of quality Strengthening comprehensiveness Improving patient care and satisfaction Improving integration research and care activities European acknowledgement