Sarcoma

Summary

NICE has issued guidance on how healthcare services for people with sarcoma should be organised. The guidance recommends which healthcare professionals should be involved in treatment and care, and the types of hospital or cancer centre that are best suited to provide that healthcare.

The key recommendations are:

• Prompt referral for expert diagnosis is crucial
• People should be treated by a specialist multidisciplinary team
• Treatment should be carried out by specialists
• Appropriate support and rehabilitation services should be available to people who are disabled by treatment for sarcoma
• All sarcoma teams should collect data on treatment and care, and take part in training programmes and audits.

Documents

For healthcare professionals

• Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma - all recommendations
• Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma - needs assessment
• Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma - evidence review
• Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma - analysis of the potential economic impact
• Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma - the manual

For patients, carers and the public

• Health services for people with sarcoma - information for the public

Background information

• 2006/014 NICE issues guidance to improve healthcare services for sarcoma

Implementing this guidance

Any further information NICE has produced to help the NHS implement this guideline locally is linked to below:

• None found