Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand

Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand
Review document and submission booklet

Date of publication: 16 September 2008
Submissions closed: 5pm, Tuesday 28 October 2008

Summary

Supportive care and rehabilitation encompasses ‘the essential services to meet the physical, emotional, nutritional, informational, psychological, sexual, spiritual, and practical needs throughout a person’s experience with cancer’. Evidence shows that when people experiencing cancer receive good social, psychological, and cultural support, their quality of life improves.

The aim of this draft guidance document is to improve the quality of life for people affected by cancer, by improving access to and quality of supportive care in New Zealand. The document provides clear objectives based on the best evidence and suggests best practice service approaches that will service to ensure that adults with cancer, their families/whānau have access to essential support and rehabilitative care they may require throughout the various stages of cancer, from diagnosis onwards.

It is important that this guidance reflects up-to-the-minute evidence and covers all the relevant issues relating to supportive care for people affected by cancer in New Zealand. It is also important that the objectives and recommendations are appropriate for the sector, as these will be the drivers for action when implementing the guidance. We also seek a steer on priority recommendations, so we can get a clear picture of what needs to happen, now.

How to have your say

This guidance document is a draft only. It is important that is up-to-the minute, accurate and reflects the realities of the sector. The guidance will be updated following this review.

There are some key questions we would like you to think about and comment on as you read this draft document. These are outlined in the separate submission booklet.

There are two ways you can make a submission:
1. Print the submission booklet, write down your comments and post them to:

Cancer Team

Supportive Care Submissions

Ministry of Health

PO Box 5013

Wellington

2. Download the submission booklet and email your submission to:

emma_hindson@moh.govt.nz

Publication availability

This publication is available in Word and PDF format below:

Review document
Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand (Word, 447 KB)
Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand (PDF, 350 KB)

Submission booklet
Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand (Word, 126 KB)
Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand (PDF, 90 KB)

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Publishing information

Date of publication: 16 September 2008

ISBN numbers: ISBN 978-0-478-31811-1(website)

HP number: 4661

Citation: Ministry of Health. 2008. Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Health.

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