Collaborative Working Project between Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Kings College London and Pfizer Oncology
Developing a service model to support patients and the healthcare system to make decisions about cancer care.
Background
An ongoing challenge to both the healthcare system and pharmaceutical industry is working out the true cost of cancer healthcare - especially the expenses which sit directly outside of the cost of a drug and its delivery. One of the particular challenges is in working out the cycle-by-cycle impact of hospital attendances, blood tests, delayed appointments and missed chemotherapy slots on the overall system. Typically, a standardised costing is used when examining therapies, service redesign and delivery. However, these are set costs, what these costs do not take into account is the complete costs of all cancer therapies and the delivery of these therapies to the system, particularly the burden on patients from the totality of their care.
Project
As part of a Collaborative Working project Pfizer, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (GSTT) and Kings College London (Kings Artificial Intelligence Centre) would like to examine GSTT’s delivery of cancer care to understand its implications, and to evaluate how this service can be modified when new therapies and devices which disrupt the current status quo are added to the system. Doing so will ultimately help us to develop an artificial intelligent model to support patients and the healthcare system when making decisions around cancer care.
Benefits
Benefits to Patients
Benefits to NHS
Benefits to Pfizer
Proposed term of collaborative working project
Start date: 01 October 2022
End date: 30 September 2023
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