The variance in distribution of cancer nurse specialists in England

Background The role of the specialist nurse in the UK evolved in the 1970s. In cancer care, policy drivers have seen an increase in the number of, and an increase in the role of, the pathology‐based, or ‘site‐specific’, cancer clinical nurse specialists, and also an increase in the variety specialist cancer nursing roles; the recommendation being that every cancer patient has access to a specialist cancer nurse. Methods A census of the...