In 2012, 3.45 million people were diagnosed with cancer and 1.75 million died of cancer.
With an ageing population, the burden that cancer will impose on our societies will increase.
Cancer has replaced cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of premature death in 28 of 53 European nations.
Counting 7 partners, 12 pilot sites and the European Cancer Patients Coalition, the Bench-Can project aims to improve quality of patient’s treatment.
In this framework, the Bench-Can project focuses on identifying how European providers can be assisted in order to improve services to patients, reduce care provision inequalities and how to raise the quality of oncologic services in Europe, in the light of a highly affecting cost-benefit analysis.
The partnership of the project challenges two key topics:
Within these issues, the expected final outcomes are:
(i) Two benchmark tools planned for use in comprehensive cancer centres & cancer departments/units at general hospitals;
(ii) the identification of areas for improvement for quality of care & patient outcomes with advanced plans adopted by the pilot sites, at first, and by a broader audience in the coming years;
(iii) a benchmark manual with budget impact formulae for free access so to permit betterments in the management of cancer centres;
(iv) a roadmap for future assessments of comprehensive cancer care.
At the end of the project we expect the Bench-Can tools to be adopted as a non-profit service available to cancer centres and services across the EU.
The final results will be obtained thanks to the collaboration of the Pilot Sites which help to define:
Detailed analysis will be performed on all participating centres, for instance using data envelopment techniques and, in particular, visiting the centres with a restricted group of specialists in order to define and refine a final Benchmarking Tool that focuses on operations management and best clinical practice, which will be made available and applied to all interested Institutes in Europe.
Bench-Can Collaborating Partners
European Cancer Patients Coalition Brussels, Belgium
Institute of Oncology of Vilnius University Vilnius, Lithuania
The Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Greater Poland Cancer Centre Poznan, Poland
Helsinki University Central Hospital Helsinki, Finland
Instituto Portugues de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil Porto, Portugal
Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Tumori Milan, Italy
National Institute of Oncology Budapest, Hungary
The Oncology Institute, Cluj Napoca, Romania
King’s Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre London, UK
National Centre for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Pordenone, Italy.
For more information, please visit http://www.oeci.eu/Benchcan/
Source: OECI
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