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• Facilitation of multi-disciplinary team meetings to ensure the meetings run effectively and are well co-ordinated and all relevant patients are discussed.

• Liaise with clinical and administrative staff to create lists for circulation prior to the MDT meetings
• Attend and facilitate each MDT, and use the video conferencing equipment, as needed.
• Distribute outcomes to all concerned following the meetings and ensure that this information is correct and complete and recorded on CWP.
• Report the current position of the patient on their cancer pathway to clinicians during meetings so that they can make clinical decisions based on this information.
• To support the teams in the collection of evidence, documentation and/or data for the National Peer Review Programme.
• Ensure that the MDT activities are recorded and the results documented, eg attendance records, highlighting to the Cancer Services Manager / Lead Nurse should any members attendance fall below the required standard.
• Ensure that MDT members are kept up to date with the upcoming schedule of MDT meetings and are aware of any changes to date, venue etc.
• Ensure appropriate cover at all MDT meetings during periods of sickness or annual leave

PATIENT PATHWAY TRACKING

• Coordinate the administrative pathway of patients with a confirmed cancer to ensure that they meet National Cancer Waiting time standards.
• To proactively track the cancer patients and escalate all potential delays to the Cancer Performance Manager/Divisional Managers according to the agreed escalation policy to ensure actions are taken to avoid any breaches .
• Ensure up to date and relevant information/data is collected  to enable the full and accurate production of the PTL (Patient tracking list) and attend weekly meetings to discuss
• To maintain the systems and processes required to support the tracking of patients in their respective targets and identify service improvements where necessary
• Provide detailed breach analysis reports within 5 days of the date of the first definitive treatment date (FDT) for any 62 day patients with waiting times outside of national standards
• To liaise with colleagues from other Trusts to ensure that data is accurate for patients transferred from other hospitals to undergo treatment.
• To validate all treatments and pathways within one working day of the treatment date
• To ensure that exceptions and alterations to the waiting times of individual patients are appropriately supported by documentation and can be audited

• Maintain the generic 62 day CaRPs inbox, processing and registering referrals for patients on a 62 day pathway in accordance with the SOP