Table 2.
Patient characteristics
| Characteristics | All survey participants | Participants who made free-text comments | ||
| N | % | n | % | |
| Tumour type | ||||
| Breast | 177 | 14.0 | 53 | 15.2 |
| Colorectal | 134 | 10.6 | 48 | 13.8 |
| Lung | 141 | 11.1 | 41 | 11.8 |
| Urology | 162 | 12.8 | 31 | 8.9 |
| Gynaecology | 89 | 7.0 | 28 | 8.0 |
| Haematology | 77 | 6.1 | 18 | 5.2 |
| Head and neck | 130 | 10.3 | 26 | 7.5 |
| Skin | 101 | 8.0 | 35 | 10.1 |
| Upper GI | 97 | 7.7 | 22 | 6.3 |
| Brain | 44 | 3.5 | 11 | 3.2 |
| Child and young people | 33 | 2.6 | 7 | 2.0 |
| Cancer of unknown primary | 19 | 1.5 | 9 | 2.6 |
| Palliative care | 27 | 2.1 | 10 | 2.9 |
| Other* | 35 | 2.8 | 9 | 2.6 |
| Missing | 3 | – | 1 | – |
| Occupational group | ||||
| Chair or leader† | 179 | 14.2 | 68 | 19.5 |
| Coordinator or administrator | 120 | 9.5 | 25 | 7.2 |
| Oncologist | 141 | 11.2 | 43 | 12.4 |
| Surgeon | 167 | 13.2 | 46 | 13.2 |
| Radiologist | 107 | 8.5 | 30 | 8.6 |
| Pathologist | 78 | 6.2 | 24 | 6.9 |
| Other medical‡ | 101 | 8.0 | 29 | 8.3 |
| Clinical nurse specialist | 258 | 20.4 | 66 | 19.0 |
| Other nursing | 48 | 3.8 | 9 | 2.6 |
| Allied health professional | 64 | 5.1 | 8 | 2.3 |
| Missing | 6 | – | 1 | – |
| Region | ||||
| Wales | 154 | 12.2 | 45 | 12.9 |
| Scotland | 21 | 1.7 | 4 | 1.1 |
| Northern Ireland | 68 | 5.4 | 16 | 4.6 |
| North | 367 | 29.0 | 107 | 30.7 |
| Midlands and East | 186 | 14.7 | 52 | 14.9 |
| South West | 145 | 11.5 | 48 | 13.8 |
| South East | 147 | 11.6 | 41 | 11.7 |
| London | 176 | 13.9 | 35 | 10.0 |
| Ireland | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Missing | 3 | – | 0 | – |
| MDT type | ||||
| Local | 681 | 54.0 | 187 | 54.0 |
| Regional/specialist | 522 | 41.4 | 142 | 41.0 |
| Super-regional | 58 | 4.6 | 17 | 4.9 |
| Missing | 8 | – | 3 | – |
*Other MDT types=Sarcoma (13), other (12), ocular (4), endocrine (3) and neuroendocrine (3).
†Chair or leader professions=Surgeon (75), oncologist (31), other medical (42), haematologist (9), CNS (4), dermatologist (4), respiratory (3), radiologist (3), other nurse (2), palliative care (1), allied health (1) and other (1).
‡Other medical=Other medical (77), haematologist (15), dermatologist (5), palliative care (3) and respiratory (1).
CNS, clinical nurse specialist; GI, gastrointestinal; MDT, multidisciplinary team.