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<strong>Improving</strong> Outcomes <strong>for</strong> People <strong>with</strong> Skin Tumours <strong>including</strong> Melanoma<br />

Cancer service guidance supports the implementation of The NHS Cancer Plan <strong>for</strong> England, 1 and the NHS Plan <strong>for</strong><br />

Wales <strong>Improving</strong> Health in Wales. 2 The service guidance programme was initiated in 1995 to follow on from the<br />

Calman–Hine Report, A Policy Framework <strong>for</strong> Commissioning Cancer Services. 3 The focus of the cancer service<br />

guidance is to guide the commissioning of services and is there<strong>for</strong>e different from clinical practice guidelines.<br />

Health services in England and Wales have organisational arrangements in place <strong>for</strong> securing improvements in<br />

cancer services and those responsible <strong>for</strong> their operation should take this guidance into account when planning,<br />

commissioning and organising services <strong>for</strong> cancer patients. The recommendations in the guidance concentrate on<br />

aspects of services that are likely to have significant impact on health <strong>outcomes</strong>. Both the objectives and resource<br />

implications of implementing the recommendations are considered. This guidance can be used to identify gaps in<br />

local provision and to check the appropriateness of existing services.<br />

References<br />

1. Department of Health (2001) The NHS Cancer Plan. Available from: www.dh.gov.uk<br />

2. National Assembly <strong>for</strong> Wales (2001) <strong>Improving</strong> Health in Wales: A Plan <strong>for</strong> the NHS and its Partners.<br />

Available from: www.wales.gov.uk/healthplanonline/health_plan/content/nhsplan-e.pdf<br />

3. A Policy Framework <strong>for</strong> Commissioning Cancer Services: A Report by the Expert Advisory Group on<br />

Cancer to the Chief Medical Officers of England and Wales (1995). Available from: www.dh.gov.uk<br />

National Institute <strong>for</strong><br />

Health and Clinical Excellence<br />

MidCity Place<br />

71 High Holborn<br />

London<br />

WC1V 6NA<br />

Web: www.nice.org.uk<br />

ISBN: 1-84629-125-9<br />

Copies of this document can be obtained from the NHS Response Line by telephoning 0870 1555 455 and quoting<br />

reference N0957. In<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong> the public is also available from the NHS Response Line (reference number<br />

N0958). A CD-ROM <strong>with</strong> all documentation, <strong>including</strong> the research evidence on which the guidance is based, is<br />

available from the NHS Response Line (reference N0959).<br />

Published by the National Institute <strong>for</strong> Health and Clinical Excellence<br />

February 2006<br />

© National Institute <strong>for</strong> Health and Clinical Excellence, February 2006.All rights reserved.This material may be freely<br />

reproduced <strong>for</strong> educational and not-<strong>for</strong>-profit purposes <strong>with</strong>in the NHS. No reproduction by or <strong>for</strong> commercial<br />

organisations is permitted <strong>with</strong>out the express written permission of the Institute.

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