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Key priority area

Increase access and timely referral to specialist multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs) with palliative care representation for people with metastatic 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

Promote clinician awareness of OCP and importance of prompt referral to a MDT

Activities

Short term

  • Promotion and communication of OCP through existing channels

Strategy

Establish directories of specialists linked to a MDT with palliative care representation

Strategy

Establish reporting of clinical quality indicators to measure timely referral to MDM