Table 3.

Cancer care reviews: current practice and views

Conductn (%)
Opportunistically, face to face225 (45)
By offering a specific appointment with a GP206 (41)
By offering a specific appointment with a practice nurse13 (3)
By telephone39 (8)
Never done/don’t know17 (3)
Use of a template in a cancer care reviewa
  No301 (60)
  Yes199 (40)
    The Macmillan template8 (2)
    A template provided by local clinicians or CCG82 (16)
    A template developed in the practice91 (18)
    Don’t know18 (4)
Usefulness
  Not useful48 (10)
  Not sure187 (37)
  Useful219 (44)
  Very useful46 (9)
  • CCG = clinical commissioning group.

  • a Five hundred GPs answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’; 199 answered ‘yes’ to use of a template .