Patient Evaluation of Nurse-Led Oncology Review Clinics

Current National Health Service (NHS) policy in the United Kingdom recommends that services should be provided closer to the patient [1] as there are many anticipated benefits in shifting the balance of care away from a central hub to delivering services near to patients’ homes. In implementing this policy, ‘nurseled’ initiatives have often been adopted for a variety of reasons, such as the capability and capacity of the workforce, cost-benefit modeling, and assumed continuity of care. However, previous studies of several ‘nurse-led’ or ‘near-to-home’ services have provided mixed outcomes with regards to their impact on costeffectiveness, clinical effectiveness, perceived quality of life, and patient health outcomes.