Perceptions of the cancer care left undone in primary and community services: A mixed methods evaluation
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Lawler, J., Leary, A., Lofton, Lydia and Bushe, Dave (2020). Perceptions of the cancer care left undone in primary and community services: A mixed methods evaluation. Health & Social Care in the Community. 28 (6), pp. 2117-2124. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13022
Authors | Lawler, J., Leary, A., Lofton, Lydia and Bushe, Dave |
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Abstract | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Lawler,J., Lofton,L., and Leary, A. (2020) Perceptions of the cancer care left undone in primary and community Primary and community care in the United Kingdom are under increasing workforce and time pressures. How these pressures effect the delivery of cancer care has rarely been explored. This service evaluation aimed to elucidate some of the views of the workforce in this sector of what work in cancer care is left undone, and what they would like to be able to offer more of. An exploratory sequential design was taken including a questionnaire and interviews asking primary and community care staff in London about their workload in cancer care. Surveys were analysed using descriptive statistics. The evaluation revealed a perception from primary and community care that there is work in cancer care that is currently being left undone. 64% of the workforce across all professions reported that they worked 10 or more hours of unpaid overtime per week. Respondents identified psychological care for people with cancer, and bereavement care for families and carers of people with cancer as the most common areas that were left undone. They would like to do more proactive work, in place of the current reactive “fire-fighting” they are doing. For example, signposting available services to people with cancer and access to nutritional support. There was a desire for acknowledgement of the time and workforce pressures in primary and community care, and how these are hindering the delivery of care for people with cancer. |
Keywords | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Health Policy; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political Science |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Health & Social Care in the Community |
Journal citation | 28 (6), pp. 2117-2124 |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 0966-0410 |
1365-2524 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13022 |
Funder/Client | Health Education England, London |
Publication dates | |
13 May 2020 | |
Online | 13 May 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 19 Apr 2020 |
Deposited | 30 Apr 2020 |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open |
License | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/89996
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