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Community breast pain clinics: a transformation pathway
Breast pain is not a symptom of breast cancer, yet nationally 20 per cent of two-week wait (2WW) breast referrals are breast pain alone. The East Midlands Breast Pain Pathway improves patient experience and frees capacity in secondary care diagnostic breast clinics, managing patients with breast pain only in a community setting.
This session will focus on highlighting the benefits of community-led care of these patients for both the patient and the provider. It will cover collaborative partnerships; the pathway; how to set up a service; the use of innovative digital solutions for family history risk assessment; patient feedback; and quality and safety case studies examining the clinical outcomes and health economic case including cost-benefit analysis.
