Cancer@Home: Model of Care Evaluation

With the shift of traditional cancer care from the hospital to home, Alfred Cancer has implemented innovative models of care to meet service demands in the ambulatory space. In 2021, Alfred Cancer embarked on Cancer@Home. The objective was to develop capabilities and care pathways to enable the provision of timely quality care. To provide preventative outpatient interventions, to avoid patients having an acute deterioration requiring hospitalisation was the aim, as well as improve patient experience beyond the walls of the hospital. Our initiatives focused not only on delivering cancer treatments in the home but also ensuring resources were available in the ambulatory same-day setting. We aimed to transfer 40% of our overall cancer activity to Cancer@Home and with Phase 1 completed, the evaluation of this phase is presented here.