Multidisciplinary Care

Multidisciplinary care focuses on continuity of care, development of appropriate referral networks, and pathways for treatment and care.

Benefits include:

• Improved treatment planning
• Improved communication and support between treating teams
• Identification of supportive care needs for people with cancer
• Improved coordination of services
• Increased opportunities for recruitment to clinical trials
• Reduction in service duplication

Cancer Multidisciplinary Meetings (MDMs) are regularly held across the region for a number of cancer types. These meetings support a team approach to treatment planning and ongoing care for newly diagnosed people with cancer as well as those requiring treatment plan reviews or palliative care.

The following meetings are held in the Barwon region:

MDM Meeting	Location	Frequency
Breast	University Hospital Geelong	Weekly
Lung	University Hospital Geelong	Weekly
Colorectal	University Hospital Geelong	1st, 3rd, 5th weeks of each month
Upper GI	University Hospital Geelong	Fortnightly
Urology	University Hospital Geelong	Fortnightly
Neuro-Oncology	University Hospital Geelong	Fortnightly
Lymphoma	University Hospital Geelong	Fortnightly
Skin	University Hospital Geelong	Fortnightly
Endocrine	University Hospital Geelong	Four-weekly
Multi-tumour stream	St John of God Warrnambool Hospital	Fortnightly