Draft talk:Ambulatory care (United Kingdom)

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In my personal experience, "In the United Kingdom, Ambulatory Care (AC) is a term that has become synonymous with the cancer specialty." is an over-generalisation, and this sentence is likely to alarm patients or their families.

At Royal Lancaster Infirmary the Ambulatory Care Unit is associated with Acute Medicine and is a one-stop shop whereby patients can come in for a day of tests, scans, etc rather than trek to and from a series of outpatients visits. My own rare disease was initially diagnosed there in 2017, after referral from my GP who was concerned about blood results, but nothing to do with oncology. This at Chester sounds similar.

Please consider re-wording this article, and perhaps retitling as "Ambulatory care (oncology)". PamD 09:37, 5 February 2024 (UTC) (updated 12:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC) to remove unnecessary welcome message for experienced page-creator)[reply]

@Adam Harangozó (NIHR WiR) @Adam Harangozó I hoped you would still be around and able to reply to my concern above, but you're not currently editing and I have moved the article to draft because I think it is so seriously misleading and could alarm patients.

"Ambulatory Emergency Care" seems to be an entire speciality: see here.

Other hospitals, like Lancaster, operate a general Ambulatory Care service, centre, or unit like Lewisham's.

I suggest that this article needs to be retitled and reworked as "Ambulatory cancer care", whether then made specific to UK or international. That phrase seems to be used in many of the sources. PamD 12:48, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD Thanks for checking this and letting me know. I will consult with the edit-a-thon participants but we'll most probably go with your suggestion. Adam Harangozó (NIHR WiR) (talk) 11:01, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]