1. Northern Cancer Alliance
Patient Engagement & Involvement
Jo Mackintosh – Engagement & Co Design Project Manager
13th December 2017

2. What is a Cancer Alliance?
A Cancer Alliance is simply a way of organising local stakeholders to improve cancer outcomes for patients.
Cancer Alliances do not remove the statutory responsibilities of individual organisations.
Their aim is to increase cancer survival rates.
There are 16 Cancer Alliances in England.
In addition, 3 National Cancer Vanguards “testing” potential new ways to deliver cancer services in the future.

3. Cancer Alliances
Cancer Alliances must take the following into account:
Meaningful patient engagement and involvement.
Health inequalities, reducing variation and improving patient experience wherever possible.
Strong emphasis on how working together as organisations and across organisational boundaries supporting local areas to carry out their
programme of work.

4. Cancer Taskforce Strategy
A taskforce consisting of national experts was asked to deliver the vision set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View. 
The strategy is called Achieving world-class cancer outcomes: a strategy for England and was published in July 2015.
The aim of this strategy is to prevent as many people as possible from experiencing cancer and improve survival rates of those with cancer.
Cancer Alliances are responsible for carrying out a programme of work to improve outcomes agreed by the National Cancer Transformation Board

5. Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA)

6. NCA Delivery Plan NCA has produced a work plan covering 2017- 21.
The aim of the plan is to address a improve cancer outcomes with a number of key objectives.
Objectives include; increasing uptake of screening: especially within more vulnerable groups and offering all patients and their families ‘living with and beyond’ cancer support to live well.
A key part of the plan is the involvement of patients and the wider public.

8. Patient & Public Voices
Integral to the improvement of cancer outcomes in our region is the involvement of patient and the wider public.
This can involve a number of approaches including representation at key meetings and active involvement in service redesign and improvement in partnership with health professionals.
NCA currently have a number of opportunities available for patients and the wider public to become involved in improving cancer outcomes in our region.
There are local opportunities to join the Cancer Patient and Carer Group.

9. Thank you for your time and attention today – do you have any questions or comments? For further information relating to involvement opportunities please contact Jo Mackintosh: Mobile: