Organisation:

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)

pdf (105kb) Practical information about claiming the MBS item for multidisciplinary care introduced in 2006.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.nbocc.org.au/bestpractice/resources/MDCC_informationaboutthen.pdf

Organisation:

National Health Service (UK) Cancer Services Collaborative Improvement Partnership

The purpose of this Multidisciplinary Team Resource Guide is to provide some practical advice to be used by clinical teams who are setting up or already running an MDT meeting. The Guide puts forward 12 questions based upon the requirements of the Manual of Cancer Standards and offers as answers some examples of service improvement case studies, resources and possible options to be considered.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.ebc-indevelopment.co.uk/mdt/intro.htm

Organisation:

NHS Modernisation Agency

pdf (301kb) Guide for improving communication between clinicians in cancer care. Contains a pro-forma template for communications within a multidisciplinary team.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.cancerimprovement.nhs.uk/documents/useful_documents/Improving_Cancer_Comms.pdf

Organisation:

Cancer and Palliative Care, Department of Human Services,Victoria

pdf (264kb). This toolkit was written to assist the development of multidisciplinary teams in all tumour streams. The documents included in this toolkit are not intended to be prescriptive, but rather to prompt thought about the elements of best practice in multidisciplinary care. The toolkit will assist in: developing team meeting protocols and establishing team practice; surveying existing meetings and ascertaining what might be necessary for newly forming teams; understanding how local multidisciplinary team meeting guidelines and protocols might appear and what they could contain; measuring the team’s performance against the guidelines and protocols and developing or improving a multidisciplinary meeting agenda.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/cancer/docs/ics/meet_toolkit.pdf

Organisation:

Cancer and Palliative Care, Department of Human Services,Victoria

pdf (468kb). This guide provides information on the implementation of multidisciplinary care. Contents include:  key principles of multidisciplinary care, what is practically required to implement multidisciplinary care and what are the medico-legal implications of multidisciplinary care in an Australian context.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/cancer/docs/mdcare/multidisciplinarypolicy0702.pdf

Organisation:

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)

pdf (1.94mb) A report that outlines the medico-legal implications of multidisciplinary care in an Australian setting. The recommendations are based on a workshop of national experts conducted by the NBOCC.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.nbocc.org.au/bestpractice/resources/MDIR_multidisciplinary
car.pdf/

Organisation:

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)

pdf (282kb). Report based on forums conducted nationwide in regards to the implementation of multidisciplinary care. Provides insight into the barriers to implementation of a multidisciplinary approach to cancer management in Australia and also demonstrates a range of creative models being used to implement a team approach to cancer care across a range of service settings.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.nbcc.org.au/bestpractice/resources/MDR192_makingmultidisciplin.pdf

Organisation:

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)

pdf (3.4mb) Final report of a 3-year National Demonstration Project on the definition, benefits and implementation of multidisciplinary care in Australia.

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.nbocc.org.au/resources/documents/MDC_multidisciplinaryproject.pdf

Organisation:

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC)

pdf (445kb). Follow up study to the National Demonstration Project in breast cancer

Format:

Website - information

Target audience: 

Multidisciplinary

Accessibility:

Publicly available - no restrictions

Cost:

Free of charge

URL:

http://www.nbocc.org.au/bestpractice/resources/MSS_multidisc-sustainability.pdf