UK
New NICE Cancer Guidelines represent an Important Advance in Primary Care - RCGP
By Royal College of GPs (RCGP), UK
Jun 22, 2005, 18:08

The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) feels that these guidelines represent the most important advance in the early diagnosis and management of cancer within primary care for a long time. We are confident that they will help GPs and nurses to be more precise in pinpointing those patients who require urgent referral and ensuring they get the level of care they need quickly and sympathetically.

�The guidance will also help GPs and nurses to evaluate the significance of signs and symptoms so that they can distinguish between those many hundreds of patients who might present with, for example, tiredness or a cough each year, and the one or two who might actually have the early symptoms of cancer.

�We are also confident that the Quick Reference version of the guidelines will be easy for busy health care professionals to use.

�A delayed diagnosis of cancer is a tragedy for the patient and distressing for the GP, and so we welcome these guidelines and urge primary care health professionals to implement them in their daily practice.�

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