All.Can Patient Survey

Tackling inefficiency in cancer care: the patient perspective The prevalence, complexity and costs of cancer are rising – yet, across healthcare, up to 20% of expenditure is thought to be spent on interventions that are deemed inefficient. 9 There is thus an urgent need to ensure that cancer care is delivered as efficiently as possible for the sustainability of our healthcare systems. All.Can defines efficiency as focusing resources on what matters to patients – and our aim is to find practical solutions to improve the efficiency of cancer care. However, in order to tackle inefficiency from the patient’s perspective, we believe that we need to gain a better understanding of where patients consider their care is not focused on what matters to them. Executive summary 07 The All.Can patient survey was designed with this purpose in mind. It asked patients where they had encountered inefficiency across the entire continuum of cancer care, including diagnosis, treatment and care, ongoing support and the broader impact of cancer on their lives. The survey questionnaire made explicit our definition of inefficiency. Nearly 4,000 respondents from more than 10 countries participated in the survey from January – November 2018 – making this, to our knowledge, the largest international survey specifically aimed at obtaining patient perspectives on inefficiency in cancer care. Patient insights on cancer care: opportunities for improving efficiency About this survey The All.Can patient survey was conducted by Quality Health, with close input from the All.Can international research and evidence working group. It was disseminated via patient organisations and social media. To find out more about the survey and to view additional materials, see www.all-can.org/ what-we-do/research/patient- survey/about-the-survey/