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Every newly diagnosed patient gets a named person whose job is to get them through appointments, tests, paperwork and money problems. Insurers should pay for it because it prevents delays and dropouts.
Patient navigation programmes improve time to treatment and completion, particularly for disadvantaged groups, and randomised evidence exists. In the US, Medicare began paying for principal illness navigation services in 2024, creating a reimbursement route. Elsewhere navigation depends on charity funding. The proposal is to make navigation a reimbursed service from diagnosis to end of treatment, with standard training, caseloads, and outcome reporting.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
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