Sustainable Lung Cancer Pathway

Lean Healthcare Academy worked with the Yorkshire Cancer Network to help them to improve the patient experience and ultimately save lives by shortening and simplifying the Lung Cancer pathways across the network. A key driver was that Trusts across the network were failing to hit and sustain the government standard of a 62 day limit between referral and first definitive treatment (FDT) for life saving surgery. This was greatly increasing the risk of patients dying as a result of late diagnosis and treatment.