Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction/Background: PRRT is a high cost treatment for progressing Neuroendocrine tumours. Patients and healthcare providers invest heavily in the treatment journey that lasts a number of months.Aims: To assess the level of patient satisfaction with the PRRT service, to indicate areas for possible improvement and good practice and serve as a baseline for future assessments.Material and ...

Introduction/Background: Neuroendocrine Tumour (NET) patients can have specialist and complex needs and this can be exacerbated when they have PRRT. A new role was envisaged that would utilise a NET Clinical Nurse Specialist to work with both Nuclear Medicine and the NET team for delivering PRRT.Aims: As part of the wider NET team the aim for the new CNS was to embed outpatient PRRT delivery, increase capacity and delive...