About Us

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• Network Structure
• National Cancer Control
• Midland Cancer Control Service Providers

The Midland Cancer Network was formed in 2006 and links together the organisations that provide care for people with cancer across the Midland Cancer Network area which includes Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Lakes district health board (DHB) districts with an open invitation to Tairawhiti and Taranaki DHB districts (whose primary regional network is the Central Cancer Network).

The network has a population of 632,442 people and encompasses three district health boards, one regional cancer centre, eleven primary health organisations, nine public hospitals, one Cancer Society, six hospices and a number of other community and voluntary organisations.

The Networks works across the cancer continuum, providing leadership, facilitation and coordination with cancer control stakeholders.

We work closely representatives of people who have had cancer, carers, health professionals and managers to the implementation of the New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy (2003) and associated New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy Action Plan 2005-2010 (2005) for the people of Midland.

Purpose

The Midland Cancer Network has a leadership, facilitation and coordination role in bringing together and working with stakeholders across organisational and service boundaries.  The goals of the Network are based on those of the Cancer Control Strategy,  being to:

·          reduce the incidence and impact of cancer;

·          reduce inequalities with respect to cancer; and

·          improve the experience and outcomes for people with cancer.

We work closely with representatives of people who have had cancer, carers, health professionals and managers in the implementation of the New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy (2003) and New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy Action Plan 2005-2010 (2005) for the people in the Midland Cancer Network area. Our intent is to improve the journey of cancer patients and their family/whānau through the complex pathway of care, working towards equitable, high quality, patient centred, evidence based and multidisciplinary care.

The network’s three strategic directions for 2009-2014 are to:

·     share knowledge and information to enable informed decision making

·     facilitate regional service quality improvement leading to better, sooner, more convenient services and

·     support innovation and infrastructure development to reduce inequalities and build capacity and capability