Mid Essex Cancer Services

Cancer and Palliative Care

The Trust has a large team of health professionals who provide multi-disciplinary care for patients with suspected and confirmed diagnosis of cancer. The Trust is part of the Essex Cancer Network that serves a population of approximately one million and therefore has strong ties with Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Colchester Hospitals University Foundation Trust and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals.

The Trust's cancer services include surgery, outpatient chemotherapy and specialist palliative care. The Trust is also a designated  surgical centre for Upper GI cancer and Head and Neck cancer.

Services 

Multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) are organised in site-specific tumour groups as recommended in the NHS Cancer Plan (DOH 2000). As well as these site-specific teams there is the Specialist Palliative Care team (Macmillan Nurses), a very active outpatient chemotherapy service (Chemotherapy Day Unit) and a large clinical research trials team.

Essex Cancer Network

MEHT is part of the Essex Cancer Network, and the purpose of the network, which was formed in 2007, is to improve services for patients and ensure equity of treatment.

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Site-specific tumour groups include: 

• Breast Cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Colo-rectal cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Gynaecological-cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Head and Neck Cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Haematology (including Lymphoma and Haematological malignancies) multi disciplinary team

• Lung Cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Melanoma Multi disciplinary team

• Upper Gastro-Intestinal Cancer Multi disciplinary team

• Urological Cancers Multi disciplinary team

• Macmillan Palliative Care Multi disciplinary team

Patients with a less common or rarer cancer will be referred onto the appropriate tertiary centre that specialises in the management of that particular cancer. This may include Sarcomas, Acute Leukaemia’s and Pancreatic Cancer. 

Location 

The Cancer and palliative care team work at Broomfield Hospital, as below.

• MEHT Cancer and Palliative Care Services, Broomfield Hospital, Court Road, Broomfield, Chelmsford, CM1 7ET 

Referrals 

Cancer Two Week Wait referrals should be made only by health professionals using the agreed pro forma and should be faxed to the Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) office on 01245 516751.