Guidelines and Publications

Guidelines

• 2004 Integrating Lung Cancer Nursing: A Good Practice Guide - NLCFN and NHS Modernisations Agency
• 2005 The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lung Cancer-Department of Health
• 2007 Nurse Led Follow Up Guidelines - National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses
• 2008 Cancer Reform Strategy
• 2008 Erlotinib Toxicity Guidelines

If you wish to receive glossy copies of the Erlotinib Toxicity Guidelines please request this through the "Contact Us" tab at the top of the page.

• 2009 NLCFN Good Practice Guide Leading the Way to an Ideal Lung Cancer Service
• 2010 NHS White Paper: ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS’

Articles of Interest

Bulletins of cancer information are compiled by the staff of the David Adams Library in the Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Goto www.londonlinks.ac.uk/currentawareness where current and previous bulletins can be accessed.

The document begins with list of headings that are hyperlinked to the corresponding section in the document. This will make it easier for you to navigate your way around the document. All the journals listed except the BMJ (this is available online) are held in the David Adams Library. Please note that the BMJ is now a fully online journal. This means that all of the references published here are available online, some may be published in the paper version others are not. For those employed by the NHS you will have access to the BMJ using your NHS Athens account. If you need help obtaining any of the papers listed here please contact your local library

References for Patient Information

Producing Patient Information (King’s Fund, 2003)
www.nursingtimes.net

Information Accreditation Scheme
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/PatientChoice/BetterInformationChoicesHealth/Informationaccreditation/index.htm

NHS Guidelines for producing patient information
http://www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk/page/5287
http://www.cancerimprovement.nhs.uk/View.aspx?page=/cross_tumour/patient_carer.html

Information prescriptions general information
http://www.informationprescription.info/

Information prescriptions resources
http://www.informationprescription.info/resource/index.html

To download 2008 Evaluation of Information Prescriptions
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_086889

For further information email:
ncatpatientexperience@gstt.nhs.uk

For national cancer information
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/