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SUMMARY:Patient Navigation: The Path Towards Reduced Cancer Inequalities in Europe?
DESCRIPTION: A Stakeholder Forum for the EU NAVIGATE Project\n \n\nBackground:\nCancer inequalities are a long-standing issue within health systems in Europe. Still today, people’s postcodes or background often impact their chances for a healthy life and best outcomes from health systems after a cancer diagnosis.\n \nWhilst advances in cancer prevention, treatment and multidisciplinary care are reducing the cancer burden in Europe, they also go hand-in-hand with complex healthcare systems, in which vulnerable or remote groups may face difficulties to timely access the health and social care services they need. In particular, more and more patients requiring high-quality survivorship, supportive, palliative, and end-of-life care, may be especially exposed to such difficulties. Many of these patients and their caregivers find themselves overwhelmed, overburdened, in need for information and support.\n \nPatient navigation interventions, where dedicated people get specially trained to engage with patients on an individual basis and empower them to navigate through the healthcare systems, hold promises to overcome these barriers, whilst providing companionship and support.\n \nThe project: \nEU Navigate is a pan-European research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme, running from 2022 to 2027. The goal is to develop and implement NavCare-EU, an innovative patient navigation tool to: improve the quality of life and well-being of cancer patients and their families; foster empowerment; and promote timely and equitable access to health and social care services. The project focuses on older cancer patients and their family caregivers for its clinical study, and it will develop recommendations on patient navigation in the EU and beyond.\n \nWhy a Stakeholder Forum?\nUnlike Canada and the United States, patient navigation is not yet a standard European practice. The EU Navigate project represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to promote patient navigation on a broader, more political scale throughout the entire cancer pathway – from cancer prevention to supportive, palliative and end-of-life care.   Participating experts and stakeholders will have the chance to discuss ongoing project activities and work together on a common policy agenda for patient navigation in cancer.   A detailed report will be issued following the Forum. \n \n\n 
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