West Midlands Cancer Alliance provides leadership to improve cancer patients' outcomes both in terms of survival and experience of care. This extends from prevention strategies, through screening and early diagnosis, delivery of evidence based treatment, living with and beyond cancer, palliative and supportive care to end of life care.
The Cancer Alliance is seen as the vehicle for sharing best practice and innovation, identifying and addressing variation, integrating care pathways, monitoring performance and supporting providers to provide high quality, cost effective care.
The Cancer Alliance Board provides leadership to ensure successful delivery of the Alliance’s programme of work, including that local plans are aligned and support Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and transformation across the West Midlands. It will act as the decision-making body in relation to the planning and delivery of the Cancer Taskforce strategy locally.