Enhancing Patient Safety and Quality of Surgical Cancer Care: The French National Cancer Plans

Serge Evrard (1)

1 Head of Digestive Tumours Unit and Department of Surgery

Two National Cancer Plans (2003 - 2007 and 2009 - 2013) have been launched in France to organise the healthcare offer in order to enhance quality and safety. The current Cancer Plan[1] defines regulatory frameworks across the three major areas of cancer therapy: surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. These regulatory frameworks are based on three pillars: transversal requirements for the quality of care; establishment of minimal thresholds for institutions and technical criteria that are required for each type of cancer surgery. Based on adherence to these requirements and following a process of continuous assessment, institutional accreditations (currently being allocated in 2010) will be given for a period of 5 years.

Mots clés: Medicine

Serge Evrard. Enhancing Patient Safety and Quality of Surgical Cancer Care: The French National Cancer Plans. EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2010, 36, ⟨10.1016/j.ejso.2010.06.022⟩. ⟨hal-00612391⟩