Specialised Commissioning Alert: MDT

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14 January 2020

This guidance has been developed to enable cancer multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) to respond to the changing landscape in cancer care, as recognised in the NHS Long Term Plan and the Independent Cancer Taskforce Report. MDT Streamlining will be supported by agreeing Standards of Care (SoCs) across Cancer Alliances. These SoCs will set out the treatment or care patients should expect to receive

As part of Wave 2 of the ACE Programme, five projects across England tested the viability of the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centre (MDC) model as an approach to improving outcomes for patients presenting with non-specific but concerning symptoms. This article addresses the challenges associated with achieving a full and rigorous evaluation of MDC cost effectiveness, before describing some of the practical approaches employed at a project level to understand pathway cost.

Cancer Research UK February 2019

This article considers the shared approaches undertaken across five ACE Programme projects during the period of evaluation, draws out the distinguishing features of the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centres (MDC) model, and identifies where distinctions have added value to the overall design of the pathway.

Emerging Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centre (MDC) models and design principles
Policy Research Unit for Cancer Screening, Awareness and Early Diagnosis February 2019

This report is based on insights from 128 one-to-one interviews with MDC clinicians, managers, commissioners and other key informants from the five MDC projects, and represents a significant resource on the development and implementation of MDC-based pathways.
It provides insight into the factors that affected implementation success, such as: organisational culture; leadership; change skills and capacity; and, ability to support different ways of clinical working.

Both reports are available on the Cancer Research UK Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centres (MDCs) webpage.

The Cancer Research UK ACE Programme has released new resources to support local development and implementation of MDC-based pathways for patients with non-specific but concerning symptoms.
Resources include