Barts and The London Cancer Centre

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Our performance

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For full details of our performance against waiting time targets, please click here to download the figures.

Patient satisfaction

2006 survey among breast cancer patients

In a 2006 survey of patients who had undergone a mastectomy and/or breast reconstruction surgery, 91% said the information and support given to them by a breast care nurse to help them make a decision about their reconstructive surgery was either very helpful or helpful.

2006 privacy and dignity audit among cancer inpatients

• A high number of patients indicated that they found the efficiency, courtesy, caring attitude, response to call system and the time their nurses spent at their bedside to be very good.
• The majority of patients rated the doctors’ care to be very good
• Most of the patients indicated that they felt the nurses and doctors protected their privacy and dignity.    

Awards

• Dr Samir Agrawal has developed a new technique to provide a faster and more accurate diagnosis for leukaemia, and this has won the Department of Health’s national Health and Social Care Awards in 2007
• Rahere ward won Student Placement of the Year award in 2006.
• In 2005, we won the north east London modernisation award for breast services.
• Mr Rob Carpenter, breast surgeon, won NHS champion doctor of London award in 2004.