Lancashire and South Cumbria Thyroid CRG

Thyroid CRG Chair: Dr Gerard Walls, Consultant General and Endocrine Surgeon, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
Secretary: Angie Newell angie.newell@mbht.nhs.uk
CRG Group Contact: Rachel Lloyd rachel.lloyd@lthtr.nhs.uk

The role and purpose of the Thyroid CRG is to improve the experience and outcomes of cancer care for thyroid cancer patients in the Lancashire & South Cumbria footprint.
This involves consideration of strategies and plans for service improvement, service development and service delivery, across the patient pathway, incorporating all aspects of care at appropriate stages of the patient's journey.

Members of the CRG will be responsible for feeding back information/decisions from the CRG to their clinical and managerial colleagues.

Thyroid CRG Guidelines

Adjuvant pathway for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (February 2018) British Thyroid Association Guidelines for the Management of Thyroid Cancer (Updated July 2014) Guidelines for the use of Systemic Therapy in Patients with Advanced Thyroid Cancer - Supplementary Materials Guidelines on the use of Systemic Therapy in Patients with Advanced Thyroid Cancer NHS Scotland - Consensus Guidance on Routine Practice for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (May 2020) NICE Guidance - Thyroid Cancer: Assessment and Management (published December 2022) Thyroid cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (Filetti 2019)

Thyroid CRG Key Documents

BAETS- GIRFT Thyroid Lobectomy Generic Adult Pathway (2022) GIRFT, RCS and BAETS - Best Practice for Thyroidectomy Documentation (2022) Head and Neck Lymph Node Criteria Article (2013) RCR- Recommendations for cross-sectional imaging in cancer management - Faculty of Clinical Radiology

Current Radioiodine + Dynamic Risk Stratification EOTLs

EOTL v4 Restratified low risk patient letter V4
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