Clinical Director: Mr Rick Saunders

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Watch the video below to see Mr Rick Saunders, Colorectal Surgeon and Clinical Director of the Colorectal Optimal Pathway Group, and Dr Rob Eastham, Leeds GP, talking with Dr Helena Rolfe, Cancer Alliance Clinical Lead, about the new West Yorkshire and Harrogate FIT pathway - following on from recent NICE and BSG evidence based recommendations. 

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Meeting agenda 29th June 2023

Meeting minutes 29th June 2023

 

National Priorities

  • Deliver Best Practice Timed Pathway (BPTP) diagnostic milestones on the suspected colorectal cancer pathway.
  • Ensure all colorectal cancers are tested for Lynch Syndrome.
  • Implement Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in West Yorkshire and Harrogate as a triage tool in primary care on the lower GI pathway for symptomatic patients.
  • Implement Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) outcomes – to reduce variation in neoadjuvant radiotherapy treatment in rectal cancer patients undergoing resection and ensure evidence-based local radiotherapy policies are in place.

Local Priorities

  • Polyposis regional guidelines have been updated.
  • Develop Alliance wide guidelines for the neoadjuvant management of resectable rectal cancers.
  • Local guidelines produced for the management of hereditary colorectal cancer.
  • Adopt a 'straight to oncology' pathway for patients presenting with metastatic disease across the Cancer Alliance.
  • Develop a West Yorkshire and Harrogate colonic stenting network which aims to facilitate inter-hospital transfer for stenting within the WYAAT network, should the procedure be unavailable in the ‘parent’ hospital.

 

Read the document: Implement a timed colorectal cancer diagnostic pathway

View information for colorectal patients in the Your Cancer section of our website.