Priority 6 from the Teenage and Young Adult Cancer PSP

UNCERTAINTY: What are the most effective strategies to ensure that young people who are treated outside of a young person's Principal Treatment Centre receive appropriate practical and emotional support? (JLA PSP Priority 6)
Overall ranking 6
JLA question ID 0060/6
Explanatory note A Principal Treatment Centre (PTC) is a centre that specialises in young people's cancer and in delivering care to this age group. Depending on where a young person lives or what type of cancer they have, they may be treated outside a PTC, such as at a local hospital. For some young people, this may be their choice, for example if they wish to be treated at a hospital closer to their home. Young people treated outside a PTC might not have the same access to support as young people treated in a PTC; this question seeks to find out the best strategies to ensure that they are supported.
Evidence

None identified
Health Research Classification System category Cancer
Extra information provided by this PSP
Original uncertainty examples How do ensure young people who receive their treatment in hospitals other than principal treatment centres receive appropriate practical and emotional support? ~ What practical and emotional support do young people who are treated in hospitals other than principal treatment centres have access to? ~ Do young people who spend little or no time in hospital during treatment receive any appropriate practical or emotional support?
Submitted by 3 x health professionals 
PSP information
PSP unique ID 0060
PSP name Teenage and Young Adult Cancer
Total number of uncertainties identified by this PSP. 185  (To see a full list of all uncertainties identified, please see the detailed spreadsheet held on the JLA website)
Date of priority setting workshop 19 January 2018