Bench-Can
Case examples
HCN has participated in several international projects where we developed practical knowledge database resources. The case materials collected represent different areas of practical experience and provide lessons for implementation in practice. The case materials always respond to the defined problems of the projects, outline the various solutions available, and offer proven results that showcase a […]
January 2021
Bench-Can
IMPROVING QUALITY OF CANCER CARE IN EUROPE As part of the BENCH-CAN project which focussed on benchmarking comprehensive cancer care to improve the quality of interdisciplinary patient treatment, good practice examples of clinical practice, patient experience, and operations management processes were identified at designated comprehensive cancer centres & interdisciplinary tumour services. 16 good practices were […]
July 2017
Innovating for Health
In the EU, there is a growing consensus across Europe about the need for urgent reconfiguration of health care. Critically, the acute hospital model is costly and economically unsustainable in its present form. Evidence suggests that technology growth is contributing significantly to polarisation of services. It will transform and accelerate the capacity to transfer more […]
July 2017
Patient-oriented health care
Cancer as an episodic and chronic illness places new demands on patients and families to manage their own care, and it challenges old care paradigms. A multidisciplinary approach to treatment and survivorship care is needed in which personalised care based on the needs of the patient is the starting point. There are several challenges here: surviving cancer is not easy […]
July 2017