Survivorship care is a complex and evolving area of cancer care that aspires to build capacity for flexible and ongoing cancer care in the community, to meet people’s needs. It requires a shift in focus from traditional cancer care delivery, cultural change and system transformation for the development of new models of care in collaboration with primary and community-based services.
The Victorian Cancer Survivorship program (VCSP) Grants Scheme was established in 2011 to spur development of innovative programs and models of care across acute and primary/community care sectors. Prior to the initiation of Phase II of the VCSP grants scheme in 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services Victoria commissioned the development of an evaluation and outcomes framework for cancer survivorship care programs. This framework addresses the key domains of cancer survivorship care to help inform the evaluation requirements of any VCSP funded initiatives.
The framework is designed for use at the project level to inform high quality project design, planning and implementation. It informs an iterative action learning approach to optimise the value and success of the project and helps to provide evidence of the overall impacts achieved by the project for the purposes of business case development and publications.
At the statewide level, the framework will help to generate evidence that will make a contribution to the knowledge base on cancer survivorship, understand the impacts achieved from the government’s investment and inform the development of future initiatives.
The presentation will describe the framework’s six key domains for evaluation including: model of care design (unique to each project), organisational engagement and leadership, project implementation and evaluation, participation, expected outcomes (at an individual and organisational level) and sustainability and spread.