Improvement of the logistical organization of ambulatory care for cancer patients

: Development and successful use of new logistical know-how provide means of improving the standards of oncological service. It is a particularly urgent problem at the grass roots level, yet it has not been appreciated to the full. A possible solution may be deployment of outpatient oncological departments within the framework of polyclinics which will en sure that the available diagnostic and therapeutic facilities are used more effectively. Such an arrangement will provide expertise and logistics standards inaccessible for a consulting oncologist. According to a five-year survey of the performance of an outpatient oncological department at a municipal polyclinic in a Mid-Urals town, more cancer patients have been given better medical service due to use of earlier and faster diagnostic procedures.