Advocacy Opportunities

As part of the Biden Administration’s Cancer Moonshot^sm and the President’s Cancer Cabinet, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Veterans Affairs (VA), in collaboration with several other Department of Health and Human Services agencies, are developing national standards for survivorship care. The goal of this project is to define standards for (1) essential health system policy and process components of survivorship care programs; and (2) evaluation of the quality of survivorship care.

To develop these standards, NCI and VA will hold three virtual meetings with survivorship subject matter experts to rate the importance of potential indicators for the survivorship standards and to prioritize the most important and feasible indicators in three domains: health system policy, health system processes, and evaluation.

The meetings will be held November 29, December 6, and December 12 from
2-3 p.m. ET. A general overview of each session is below. While participation in these meetings is by invitation only, we invite you to view the discussion live at the links below, where there will be an opportunity to provide comments to the working group.

• Meeting 1: November 29, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET https://nci.rev.vbrick.com/#/webcasts/nationalsurvivorship-pcpday1
  Background information; introduction to the project; individual polling to rate the importance of each survivorship indicator; and identify other indicators for consideration and rating
• Meeting 2: December 6, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET https://nci.rev.vbrick.com/#/webcasts/nationalsurvivorship-pcpday2 
  Presentation of Meeting 1 poll results and the edited list of possible indicators; open discussion; individual polling to identify the five most important indicators within each domain
• Meeting 3: December 12, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET https://nci.rev.vbrick.com/#/webcasts/nationalsurvivorship-pcpday3
  Presentation of Meeting 2 poll results and top prioritized indicators; open discussion on which indicators are a priority, are feasible, and are achievable to implement within a healthcare system; finalize individual polling to rank the five most important indicators within each domain

After the meetings, the Survivorship Standards Working Group will collate the results to finalize the standards for dissemination. These standards will be piloted in VA National TeleOncology and will be available for implementation in other healthcare settings, including (but not limited to) cancer centers.