Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Annual Service Report 2021 - 2022

Service Report 2022 Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Centre – The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

3.3 Nurse Led Teaching Our CNS’s take part in the Surgical Nursing Study Days at The Christie which takes place every 3 months. We specifically teach on the disease, how each disease group is treated and how to manage post operative patients. We offer support to junior staff and encourage that they shadow us, so they understand the patient journey from the early stages. We have had some excellent feedback from our teaching sessions, and we thoroughly enjoy being able to share our knowledge and skills to assist in improving patient care:

“informative, interesting, engaging - found structure extremely helpful”

“Facilitators prepared very interesting presentations”

“Very relevant and useful training”

3.4 ePROMS (electronic Patient Related Outcome Measure Service)

The Christie has developed an electronic quality of life questionnaire using a platform called ePROMS to improve patient outcomes. This enables patients to complete a questionnaire at home using as online application which is quick and easy to use. A link to this is sent out to them prior to their consultation. Answers are colour co-ordinated with a key providing patients with advice if they are having problems which they should seek help for. The results can be accessed by the Clinicians via individal patient records on our clinical web portal (CWP). An example of a typical question frame is shown below:

The CPOC PTS has been one of the first services to bring this to surgery and piloted ePROMS in June 2021 on patients who had surgery between 2019 and 2020. The results are below. The numbers for the pilot study were relatively small however, we went live with this service in the Nurse led surveillance follow up clinics in January 2022.

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