Defining Success

Objective

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients have access to radiotherapy services offered in a culturally appropriate and respectful way.

Defining Success

A focus on improving Indigenous patients’ outcomes in cancer control and radiotherapy specifically, including:

• Better data collection on Indigenous access to oncological services;
• Assessment of specific barriers to service access;
• Evidence-based strategies to improve access to treatments;
• Improved engagement between the hospital system, local communities and community-controlled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services.