The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s Palliative and Enhanced Supportive Care Team have been awarded the MacMillan Professionals Excellence Award in Quality Improvement Excellence for the implementation of its AMBER Care Bundle.
The AMBER Care Bundle is an advanced care planning tool which enables communication and collaboration between cancer patients, their families and their medical team, when the chances of recovery are unknown. The AMBER Care Bundle allows for open and honest conversations between patients and their medical team and means more in-depth and personal care planning towards the end of a patient’s life.
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool (Image: MacMillan Cancer Support)
The AMBER Care Bundle means that nearly all our patients are now cared for where they choose when they are coming to the end of their life – whether that’s in hospital, at home or in a hospice. Advanced Care Planning like this is important because it often means the difference between a person making their own decisions about their future care or those decisions being made by others.
Dr Dan Monnery, Consultant in Palliative Medicine at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre said: “As a team and a trust we are delighted to have won this award, especially when the competition was so strong. It means a lot to have this hard work recognised and we hope it goes some way towards other teams feeling inspired to engage with quality improvement.”
The prestigious Macmillan Professionals Excellence Awards highlight outstanding examples of cancer care across the country and the impact of cancer professionals and teams who have gone above and beyond expectations. Just 20 individuals and organisations are shortlisted across four key categories.
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre was also represented at the awards by our Speech and Language Therapy Team who were shortlisted in the Integration Excellence category. The team were shortlisted for a collaborative project with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT), working to support patients with head and neck cancer across hospital sites and out in the community.
and LUHFT (Image: Macmillan Cancer Support)
