Table 4.

Practices to implement (Dos) and those to avoid (Don’ts) when setting up MDT-driven cancer care

Dos	Don’ts
Good relationships between team members	Unequal participation in discussion on treatment options
Communicating effectively with colleagues	Basing decisions primarily on biomedical information
Managing conflict within teams effectively	Seldom considering patient choice
Incorporating patient choice into decision-making	–
Incorporate patient views on the treatment options into decision-making	–
Incorporate patient psychosocial factors into decision-making	–
Incorporate patient comorbidities into decision-making	–
Ensuring equality and inclusiveness of team participation, in particular nurses	–
Rotating chairing duties within and between disciplines and, where possible, have a clinically non-contributing individual chair the meeting	–

Abbreviation: MDT, multidisciplinary team.