POLICY: Scottish Government Cancer Strategy Consultation

The most important aspects of the cancer journey are an adequate workforce strategy for cancer care, particularly with respect to the recruitment, retention, and development of cancer nurse specialists.

The consultation itself implicitly acknowledges at paragraph 54, that there can be no high-quality cancer care without the necessary workforce to deliver that care in the right place and at the right time. RCN Scotland would agree and would assert that nursing is an absolutely essential element of that workforce.