6Guiding principles

6 Guiding principles

6 Guiding principles

In exercising its functions under this Act, the Cancer Institute is to have regard to the following principles:

(a) effective cancer control requires partnership between the public sector, the private sector and the general community,

(b) resources available for cancer control should be applied so as to maximise the benefit of those resources to the greatest number of people in the most expeditious, efficient and effective manner,

(c) there should be an equitable, evidence-based, seamless, patient-centred approach to the care and treatment of cancer patients,

(d) there should be timely, high quality, co-ordinated and multi-disciplinary care available for all cancer patients, with a focus on improving accessibility irrespective of geographic location, including appropriate networking of cancer-related services,

(e) there should be specific accountability for public funds applied by the Cancer Institute to new cancer control activities,

(f) there should be co-operation between State and national bodies engaged in cancer control,

(g) links between cancer control bodies in New South Wales and relevant bodies operating or located interstate or overseas should be developed or enhanced,

(h) up to date information about cancer control (including cancer-related philanthropic activities) should be publicly available and easily accessible,

(i) cancer-related research activities should be developed in a manner that maximises gains and builds optimal research depth in a number of key research institutions.

s 6: Am 2003 No 82, Sch 2.1.