Our Transforming Cancer Services Team’s clinicians, in partnership with Public Health England, have researched the demographic variation of people living in London with serious co-morbidities (that involved an inpatient stay) at the time of their cancer diagnosis. People who are diagnosed with cancer may often have other diseases or long term conditions. These comorbidities can […]
Case studies and examples to support trusts to reduce their impact on air pollution. London suffers from high levels of air pollution. Air pollution acts as a trigger for many children and young people with asthma, contributing to ED and intensive care admissions, and possibly some asthma deaths. To provide support for this, we have […]
The report looks back at how the cancer team has supported the ongoing delivery of the Five Year Forward View, the National Cancer Strategy recommendations and our partners across London in 2016/17. Some of the team’s achievements last year include: Delivering a comprehensive baseline capacity and demand position for diagnostic services across London. This also identified potential for […]
This guide has been developed in collaboration with the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) London & South East Learning Collaborative. It looks at outcome measures that may be meaningful and realistic for commissioners of children ang young people mental health services. Many national key performance indicators currently focus on access and waiting times but these are […]
Commissioners can use this document to create a business case to take to their board to help develop a lymphoedema service in their area. The template business case is a practical tool based on, and to be used alongside, the commissioning guidance for lymphoedema services published in August 2016. Although the template business case focuses on the […]
This is a practical guide to help school staff and those who support younger children to have an awareness of asthma as a medical condition and the needs of pupils during the school day. This document aims to enable schools to effectively manage children and young people with asthma in a school setting. The following […]
Our Transforming Cancer Services Team and the London Living with and Beyond Cancer Board held an event to consider: “Excellent psychological support for those affected by cancer: how can we deliver the right support, at the right time, in the right place?” Downloads Sign up to our newsletter.
This report is aimed at commissioners interested in developing new models to deliver out-of-hospital healthcare services for children and young people. The document describes the audit that was carried out across six London emergency departments during a two-week period in February and March 2016. During the audit, clinicians reviewed 3,020 children and young people attendances from 10am […]
This report is designed to help shape the commissioning of cancer rehabilitation services in London. It identifies London’s key challenges to improving cancer rehabilitation services and discusses the impact on patients. It provides recommendations for future commissioning of cancer rehabilitation services. The report looks at: Poor understanding of the economic benefits of rehabilitation The lack […]
Explore the information and resources designed to support you to deliver each key finding of the London Workforce Strategic Framework. This section of the website represents the historical record of a legacy programme which is no longer managed by TPHC, as of the end of 2023.