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SIOPE / EONS Partnership Project

‘Collaboration between nurses and doctors in paediatric oncology’

Multi-professional collaboration is gaining greater attention for its outstanding capacity to deliver high-quality care. ECCO, the European CanCer Organisation, has sponsored a project entitled ‘Collaboration between nurses and doctors in paediatric oncology’, coordinated by SIOPE and in association with EONS, to enhance interaction between doctors and nurses in paediatric oncology centres.

The project aims to improve collaborative working between nurses and doctors in the care and management of children with cancer by establishing a programme to explore organizational development and change. Originally organised around three weekend seminars held in Europe over a period of two years, funding has once again been allocated to continue this project in 2009.

The project objectives include the following:

• To describe the level of integration between doctors and nurses in several areas of care;
• To improve the integration in specific areas of care;
• To promote the exchange and enrichment of theoretical and technical knowledge between professionals (doctors and nurses) in the same working environment.

At the outset, the project consisted of 15 ‘doctor and nurse’ pairs from across Europe collaborating on a broad range of topics. Eleven pairs continue to roll-out the project and one new team has been welcomed to join the project this year, with the seminar taking place on 19th September in Berlin, Germany.

For further information on this project, please contact the SIOP Europe office:

SIOP EUROPE (the European Society for Paediatric Oncology)
Avenue E. Mounier 83
B-1200 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 775 02 01
Fax: +32 2 775 02 00
http://www.siope.eu
office(at)siope.eu