Cancer Care in the Post-COVID World, 1st ed. 2024 A UK and European Perspective on Learning from the Pandemic

This Open Access textbook covers the effects impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cancer care and how health care professionals and people with a cancer diagnosis have been affected. It discusses current research covering COVID and Cancer and considers the different impacts on patients with solid tumours and those with a haematological malignancy.  The authors critically appraise how technology has been used to combat the pandemic as well as impacts on patient management and their well-being, education of health care professionals as well as the delivery of oncology cancer treatments. They also examine the ongoing psychological effects on patients, health care professionals and provide an analysis of the effects of the pandemic on the charitable sector in cancer care. Importantly this book provides both a UK and a European perspective on the above as well as looking forward to appraise the long-term effect of the pandemic on cancer care, both positive and negative.

A) Foreword Dr Verna Lavender +/_ endorsement from Dame Cally Palmer 

B) Introduction Mark/Helen/Andreas

1. Patient Experience Patient stories…Helen to pull together. Concentrate on the impact on patients and their families. Helen Roe (and patients/carers)  

2. Research background  COVID and Cancer Joanne Bird

3. Haematological perspectives on COVID and Cancer Dr Sheeba Irshad

4. Increasing use of Technology in COVID Pandemic and the effect of this on staff and patients. Mark Foulkes 

5. Virtual Consultations – training and patient experience Dr Verna Lavender

6. European Perspectives on Cancer and Pandemic 

  (Use of Private sector) Dr. Andreas Charalambous 

7. Charity Sector and the effects Dany Bell 

8. Impact on Provision of Education Dr Karen Campbell 

9. The psychological impact of COVID on staff

Includes the effects of patient distress on CNS working and the pivotal role of the CNS whilst isolated from the MDT. Helen Roe/Eamonn Sullivan  

10. The  experience of redeployment on oncology staff and The Nightingale Experience Eamonn Sullivan 

11. Patient management and Flow during pandemic Mark Foulkes

13. The long-term legacy of COVID in Cancer Care Need to debate the challenges/learning and consider recommendations for the workforce and service delivery

Mark/Helen/Andreas

He is a clinical member of the Acute Oncology Team and, during the COVID-19 pandemic he continued to work at the Royal Berkshire Hospital seeing patients. He also worked strategically to help manage the Trusts response to the crisis. He helped establish the Trust’s staff COVID swabbing regimen and the hospital’s virtual Cancer Rehabilitation sessions, which have been very successful. Mark has presented widely on a range of subjects and has a particular interest in nurse-led services, innovative approaches to cancer care delivery and the political backdrop to cancer services. He has previously co-edited the Second edition of The Oxford University Press Handbook of Oncology Nursing, as well as recently completing The Fundamentals of Cancer Care as the lead editor.