1. Criteria in Europe for Cancer Centres following the OECI Henk Hummel OECI Accreditation and Designation Executive Officer Leiden 15-01-2013 Dr. Katrien Van Look

2. Background 2 Founded 1979 75 members Working groups Mission: Linking cancer centres Coordinate their actions Inter/Multidisciplinarity Quality of cancer care Integration of research Innovation Patients involvement

3. 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

4. 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. 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. 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

7. 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. 8 Qualitative standards

9. 9 Qualitative questionnaire

10. 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. 11 02/06/2016 Quantitative questionnaire Five chapters -data collection-

12. 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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14. 14 14-01-2013 Why accreditation? Overall improvement of quality Strengthening comprehensiveness Improving patient care and satisfaction Improving integration research and care activities European acknowledgement