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"We are glad that the cooperation with the Pardubice Region Hospital and the Pardubice Region is at a high level, which is to the benefit of patients with malignant tumours not only in the Pardubice Region. We are ready to continue investing in improving the care of our patients, which is evidenced by the imminent commencement of the construction of a complex of outpatient clinics with a hospital for chemotherapy administration and the renewal of equipment for radiotherapy of skin tumours and non-cancer radiotherapy," said the new director of Multiscan Ing. Pavel Pivrnec.
"We have been striving for the status of a centre for highly specialised cancer care for adults for many years. We succeeded in 2015 and now the importance of this achievement is becoming apparent. I consider the published statistics to be a confirmation not only of the quality of care provided, but also of the excellent cooperation between the two cooperating entities. At the same time, it also confirms the importance of our large investments in the modernisation of the instrumentation designed specifically for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients in recent years," said MUDr. Tomáš Gottvald, Director General of the Hospital of the Pardubice Region.
"Our main goal is to ensure accessible and quality health care for the citizens of the region. I am therefore glad that, even by objective standards, our Comprehensive Oncology Centre is considered one of the most desirable. I consider investment in healthcare to be really important. That is why in the next few years the largest amount of regional investments will go to hospitals, for example, to the construction of new emergency rooms and other modern pavilions," said the Pardubice Region's Health Councillor Ing. Ladislav Valtr.
For the first time ever, health insurance companies have prepared a statistical overview of the number of unique birth numbers of patients treated in clinical or radiation oncology by individual departments for the six most common oncological diagnoses (colorectal cancer, pancreatic, lung, breast, prostate and kidney cancer). This was an overview for 2015 and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre of the Pardubice Region was ranked first in all the categories monitored. In total, more than 8100 patients passed through this centre in the year under review.
"The numbers show us that we are a very busy facility and that we rank among the quality ones," said the head of the Comprehensive Oncology Centre of the Pardubice Region doc. MUDr. Jaroslav Vaňásek, CSc. "It also confirms the legitimacy of the fact that we have become an independent centre and that we are no longer just cooperating entities with the University Hospital Hradec Králové, as it was before 2015," reminded his representative MUDr. Iveta Kolářová, Ph.D.
The Multiscan Pardubice Oncology Department took over the outpatient care of patients in the Pardubice Region in the field of radiotherapy from the beginning of 2003, in connection with the purchase and operation of the linear accelerator. Since 2009, as part of the restructuring of complex oncology centres by the Ministry of Health, the Multiscan Radiology Centre became a cooperating medical facility of the Complex Oncology Centre of the Hradec Králové University Hospital. On March 20, 2015, the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic announced again a separate Comprehensive Oncology Centre of the Pardubice Region creating one functional unit connecting the Multiscan Oncology Centre with the Hospital of the Pardubice Region.
Now the centre provides comprehensive oncological care not only for the residents of the Pardubice Region, but also patients from the Kolín, Kutná Hora or Čáslav regions. It is a region with about 700 thousand people.
"We are attractive for patients from the eastern part of the Central Bohemian Region thanks to our transport links. Moreover, we have relatively favourable waiting times for radiation treatment," said Associate Professor Vaňásek, adding: "The Pardubice Region is very well covered. We have a very efficient system of operational organisation."
The Pardubice hospital provides inpatient oncology care within the Department of Clinical and Radiation Oncology and comprehensive onco-surgical care involving multidisciplinary teams consisting of doctors and medical staff from the hospital and the Multiscan Pardubice Oncology and Radiology Centre. Multiscan provides radiotherapy and the outpatient part of clinical oncology. It has eight outpatient clinics in Pardubice, which provide administration of cytostatic, hormonal and biological treatment, consultation services and dispensary care for patients. In the Pardubice Region, it carries out these activities through detached clinical oncology outpatient clinics in the Chrudim, Orlickoústec and Svitava hospitals.
"All outpatient clinics are connected by a unified information system with the possibility of on-line ordering and mutual sharing of documents, they use uniform treatment procedures. Oncologists in the region have formed one team. We also cooperate with other outpatient specialists, general practitioners or home care agencies and hospices," said Associate Professor Vaňásek. "The aim was to provide basic treatment methods as close to the patient's place of residence as possible. Thus, our doctors visit patients in detached outpatient clinics in Chrudim, Ústí nad Orlicí and Svitavy. They examine them, recommend treatment and apply chemotherapy. If biological treatment or radiation is necessary, patients go to the centre in Pardubice. Such a project does not work anywhere in the country," Kolářová said.
The Pardubice Region has thus managed to create a structure for providing oncological care that is as comfortable as possible for patients. Especially in terms of commuting, which is often very difficult given their health condition.
"The numbers of patients we have received from health insurance companies show that the system works," said Associate Professor Vaňásek. "It is a very sophisticated system. It ensures the availability of specialised and innovative treatment for all cancer patients in the Pardubice Region, as well as in the adjacent areas," added Director General Gottvald.
