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Nurse-led Clinics in Wales Help Expedite Clinical Trials of New Cancer Drugs
The nurse-led clinics at Velindre Hospital, Cardiff, seem to have helped to revolutionise the care of patients with urological cancers.
Lynette Lane, an oncology research sister with the Wales Cancer Trials Network, the moving spirit behind the new clinics, was named the winner of the Excellence in Oncology Nursing at the Pfizer Excellence in Oncology Awards 2008.
She says: We thought it would be better to make the whole system more user-friendly so we decided to set up these nurse-led clinics which would run in parallel with the consultant clinics.
We can now manage our time more efficiently and the patients.
The nurse-led clinics there are now three every week have helped boost the number of patients in clinical trials.
Last year 153 of the 185 patients approached to join trials were accepted. There are currently 15 open trials for patients with urological cancer and another 15 closed to recruitment but still following patients up.
The patients are able to come to see me, or one of my team and if there is a problem we can easily get the doctors involved.
Patients are no longer waiting as long in the waiting rooms to be seen. Previously the research nurses would have to wait around for the patients to be seen in the consultant clinics but now we have our own lists, we are in control and it makes everything more efficient.
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