What is the NCCP Ireland?

The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) is a directorate within the Health Service Executive (HSE) which manages, organises and delivers cancer control on a whole population basis.

What is protocol in chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy protocols involve destroying cancer cells by keeping the cells from further multiplying. Unfortunately, in the process of undergoing chemotherapy protocols, healthy cells can also be affected, especially those that naturally should divide quickly.

What is the national cancer strategy?

Its key strategic priorities are to: Radically upgrade prevention and public health. Lead a national drive for earlier and faster diagnosis. Put patient experience on a par with clinical effectiveness and safety.

What is regimen in oncology?

A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy.

What is the Slaintecare report?

In short, Sláintecare is an initiative aimed at abolishing the State’s two-tier health system, replacing it instead with a universal healthcare model. Such set-ups can be seen across Europe, with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) seen as prime example.

What is cancers mortality rate?

Definition. Cancer mortality is commonly expressed either as the number of cancer deaths occurring, or as a mortality rate, i.e., the number of cancer deaths per 100 000 persons per year. Cancer mortality provides a measure of the impact of cancer in a given population.

What are health care protocols?

Protocols are agreed frameworks outlining the care that will be provided to patients in a designated area of practice, such as vision health screening for people who have diabetes. They do not describe how a procedure is performed, but why, where, when and by whom the care is given.

What are treatment protocols?

the formal procedures used in a system of psychotherapy. In some systems, such as experiential psychotherapy, few explicit “rules” apply, whereas in others, such as behavior therapy, strict adherence to a treatment protocol is often used to guide the work of the therapist.

Why is cancer now considered to be a long term condition?

The successes of the last decades have meant people living longer and often with conditions that would previously have been fatal. As the cancer charity Macmillan point out, cancer is more commonly becoming a ‘long term condition’.

What is the difference between regimen and regiment?

A regimen is a prescribed treatment schedule or an exercise routine. A regiment is a unit of troop organization in the military.