Table 3.
Cancer care reviews: current practice and views
| Conduct | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Opportunistically, face to face | 225 (45) |
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| |
| By offering a specific appointment with a GP | 206 (41) |
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| |
| By offering a specific appointment with a practice nurse | 13 (3) |
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| |
| By telephone | 39 (8) |
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| Never done/don’t know | 17 (3) |
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| Use of a template in a cancer care reviewa | |
| No | 301 (60) |
| Yes | 199 (40) |
| The Macmillan template | 8 (2) |
| A template provided by local clinicians or CCG | 82 (16) |
| A template developed in the practice | 91 (18) |
| Don’t know | 18 (4) |
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| |
| Usefulness | |
| Not useful | 48 (10) |
| Not sure | 187 (37) |
| Useful | 219 (44) |
| Very useful | 46 (9) |
CCG = clinical commissioning group.
a
Five hundred GPs answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’; 199 answered ‘yes’ to use of a template .