Research project: Communication pathways surrounding people with cancer: who is involved, how do they communicate, and how do patients understand and manage this? - Dormant - Dormant
People living with advanced cancer often undergo a variety of treatments, care provision, and monitoring, in different geographical locations and involving numerous health and social care professionals (HSCPs). There is limited research exploring this and the work involved for patients in managing and understanding this. Twenty-four patients with palliative care needs for cancer and 100 of the health and social care professionals and lay persons identified by the patients as ‘involved in their care’ participated in interviews to give their perspectives of and help to construct the communication care networks for each of the patients.