RESULTS OF UPPER GI MDT QUESTIONNAIRE

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RESULTS OF UPPER GIMDT QUESTIONNAIRE

• Bill Allum
• National Clinical Lead for Upper GI
• Cancer Services Collaborative 'Improvement
  Partnership'

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CSIP AIMS

• gt 50 Patients discussed at MDT
• Weekly meetings
• Relationship between Unit and Centre
• Peer Review Standards

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RESPONSES

• Big thank you to all those Networks who completed
  questionnaires
• 20 Networks responded
• 18 Networks completed the questionnaire

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17 Networks have a Centre MDTFrequency of
meetings
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RESULTS

• 14 MDT centres cover oesophago-gastric and
  pancreatic cancers
• 11 MDT centres have designated administrative
  support
• 17 Cancer units have a diagnostic MDT

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Diagnostic MDTFrequency of meetings
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of Unit cancer patientsdiscussed at MDM
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RESULTSPatients referred from Unit to Centre

• 11 referred using a proforma
• 44 referred via the telephone
• 55 presented at MDM
• 38 referred via other methods including letters,
  faxes and electronic instructions

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RESULTSTreatment Decisions

• 14 Networks record treatment decisions in
  patients notes from which
• 30 - Doctors relayed treatment decisions to
  patients
• 23 - Treatment decisions given at next clinic
• 46 - CNS advises patients
• With 30 of Networks use a combination of the
  above three