NAoMe Quality Improvement Plan

The NAoMe Quality Improvement Plan describes the approach taken across the NATCAN cancer audits to develop improvement goals and performance indicators / metrics, aiming for these to be measurable, actionable and improvable.

The NAoMe Quality Improvement goals, developed following a thorough scoping exercise in 2023 and in consultation with stakeholders in the Audit Advisory Committee, are as follows:

1. Improve the movement of patients through the care pathway.
2. Reduce unwarranted variation in access and timeliness to systemic anti-cancer treatment.
3. Reduce unwarranted variation in access and timeliness to palliative treatments.
4. Improve access to nursing support.
5. Improve and reduce variation in metastatic breast cancer outcomes.

The NAoMe has identified ten indicators / metrics to monitor progress against these five improvement goals and how they map to clinical guidelines and standards. A range of improvement methods and improvement activities to help deliver the Quality Improvement Plan are also described.

For more information about the NAoMe, please visit our audit page.