This article originally appeared in Guardian Healthcare Network.
Macmillan Cancer Support and clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire are transforming cancer and end-of-life care.
In January 2012, Macmillan Cancer Support and clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent started to collaborate on the concept of a programme to integrate cancer care locally. The organisations came to a mutual understanding of the scope of the programme, its deliverables and outputs.