139443 - Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship

The program aims to improve access to quality cancer survivorship care through enhancing capacity of Primary Care Practitioners (PCP) to deliver appropriate services. The program will improve PCPs knowledge and confidence regarding cancer survivorship care, improved understanding of the discipline-specific roles required for shared care, and enhanced links between PCPs and hospital-based professionals. This will be achieved through their participation in clinical placements and/or blended learning educational sessions. 

The program is offered over multiple sites including: 
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 
- Royal Melbourne Hospital 
- Royal Women’s Hospital 
- Western Health 
- Austin Health 
- St Vincent’s Hospital 
- Monash Health 
- South West Healthcare 

The Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre (ACSC), A Richard Pratt Foundation based at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, was established to improve health outcomes for cancer survivors at Peter Mac and in Victoria, and to influence survivorship care nationally. Shared cancer survivorship care is defined as purposefully arranged and planned care that is shared between specialist cancer and primary health care clinicians, including role delineation, communication and referral pathways, training and clinical guidance materials and ideally, high quality patient and carer information. The Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship (2017) will build on learnings from the General Practice Clinical Placement Pilot program (2014-2015). The aim of this program is to further facilitate cross-sector collaborative learning with an emphasis on enhancing care of cancer survivors in the post treatment phase, including through exploration of models of shared care.