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Key priority area

Improve equity of access to appropriate diagnostic and staging modalities for pancreatic cancer

Strategies and activities

Each key priority area has supporting strategies and associated activities for implementation in the short, medium or long term that have been identified to achieve the priority. Click on the strategies below to explore these in more detail.

Strategy

Establish referral pathways to appropriate diagnostic and staging investigations

Activities

Short term

  • Identify barriers and enablers for diagnostic and staging investigations for pancreatic cancer

  • Develop a framework for use of teleradiology/ telehealth

Medium term

  • Develop referral pathways for diagnostic and staging investigations

Long term

  • Implement referral pathways for diagnostic and staging investigations

Strategy

Educate health professionals on appropriate diagnostic and staging investigations