Following the drawing up of the recent Cancer Primary Care Strategy for Wessex document and the realignment of the MacMillan GPs to the Wessex Cancer Alliance, there is a need to co-ordinate the activities of all the GPs employed by Wessex Cancer Alliance to optimise the effectiveness of our interventions, ensure widespread representation of primary care views throughout the Alliance and optimise communication between us.

To facilitate this process, we have agreed to draw up areas which as a group, we wish to focus on during the coming year which are in line with the strategy document.

We all recognise the importance of the voice of primary care being heard whenever significant discussions are taking place about cancer care in Wessex. Clearly all of this is on the very significant ongoing background of the challenges posed by Covid which has a significant impact on what GP practices and PCNs are able to do in terms of cancer work and on the diagnostics available in our hospitals.

Published: January 2022