Next steps
46. We cannot prevent all deaths from cancer. But as this Plan is implemented, improved cancer prevention, earlier detection, and the guarantee of effective treatment and care will mean a lower death rate, improved prospects for survival and improved quality of life for those affected by cancer.
47. This Plan has been developed through extensive consultation with cancer clinicians, cancer patients and others. It will need to be implemented in the same way. Nationally, within regions, and in local cancer networks, clinicians, managers, patients and other partners will need to work together if the ambitions in this plan are to be realised. The new Cancer Task Force, led by Professor Mike Richards, the National Cancer Director, will lead national implementation. Bringing together cancer clinicians, GPs, patients, and managers, and drawing on a wealth of wider expertise from across and beyond the NHS, it will reflect the partnership needed at all levels to drive forward implementation.
