Patient satisfaction of specialist nurse-led renal cancer follow-up

Abstract

Background: For many patients with locally advanced renal cancer, management is surgery followed by surveillance imaging for several years. There is no concrete data regarding specialist nurse follow-up for patients after they have had surgery. Aims: The authors' aim was to assess patient satisfaction with specialist nurse follow-up for patients with renal cancer who have undergone surgery. Methods: A questionnaire was used to measure patient satisfaction of the specialist nurse consultation. There were 100 patients invited who had been followed up in the nurse-led clinic between January 2020 and May 2021. These patients were given a phone call to complete the questionnaire. Findings: The audit revealed that in terms of general satisfaction, 97.1% of patients felt totally satisfied with their visit/consultation at the specialist nurse clinic. Furthermore, 94.2% of patients felt that they had good continuity of care with specialist nurse follow-up. Conclusion: Nurse-led follow-up was found to have high levels of patient satisfaction.