Cancer Care at Home

Delivering Cancer Care in Out-of-Hospital Settings

The National Cancer Plan for England, published in February 2026, sets out a programme to improve cancer outcomes while transforming how care is delivered. The plan demonstrates the commitment to shift more cancer care out of hospitals and into local neighbourhoods, supporting people to recover after treatment and live well with cancer.

HomeLink Healthcare supports this direction by providing safe, high-quality, patient-centred cancer treatments and care in an out-of-hospital setting.

We work with NHS and private healthcare providers to bring appropriate cancer care closer to patients’ homes, reducing the need for hospital attendance while maintaining safe, clinically governed care. Our services can support the delivery of systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT), pre-treatment blood testing and monitoring, rehabilitation, and other aspects of cancer care, helping providers deliver more accessible, personalised care closer to home.

The hospital cancer team retains clinical responsibility for each patient’s care, with HomeLink’s at-home service operating as an integrated extension of the existing pathway—not as a separate service—and working in close collaboration with the patient’s consultant and wider hospital clinical team.

Our approach is designed to minimise unnecessary hospital visits while ensuring patients receive the clinical expertise, monitoring and support they need throughout their care pathway.

Supporting Hospital Priorities

Our services provide flexible clinical capacity that complements both new and existing pathways, enabling suitable patients to receive safe, coordinated care in their own homes. By supporting care outside the hospital setting, we help providers optimise capacity while giving patients greater choice over where they receive appropriate aspects of their care.

Our specialist teams work alongside existing clinical services, supporting seamless communication and continuity of care between hospital and community settings.

Every service is developed collaboratively to reflect local priorities, existing pathways and local population needs.

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Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance

Clinical quality and patient safety underpin every HomeLink Healthcare service.

Our governance framework includes:

• Clinician-led service design
• Robust clinical governance processes
• Standardised operational procedures
• Workforce competency and ongoing training
• Incident reporting and continuous quality improvement
• Performance monitoring and regular service review
• Collaborative pathway development with our partners

Our experienced, specialist clinical teams provide care within clearly defined pathways and work closely with referring clinicians and wider multidisciplinary teams. Where appropriate, patients can be monitored throughout their treatment, with care adapted in response to their individual clinical needs.

Each commissioned service is tailored to local governance arrangements while maintaining consistent quality standards across delivery.

Flexible Models of Delivery

HomeLink Healthcare understands that no two health systems are the same. Our cancer care pathways can be designed around local service requirements and commissioned as standalone services or integrated within existing pathways.

Appropriate treatment and clinical support are delivered in patients’ homes by our experienced specialist community teams, including SACT nurses.

Our flexible approach enables providers to offer a wider range of appropriate care outside the acute setting, while maintaining close links with the hospital teams responsible for the patient’s overall treatment plan.

Our services and clinical governance integrate seamlessly with existing clinical structures and referral pathways to ensure continuity between hospital and community care and a coordinated experience for patients and clinicians.

Delivering Measurable Value

Our cancer care at home models are designed to support measurable improvements across key operational and clinical indicators, including:

• Improved patient flow
•  Reduced outpatient and day-unit attendances Improved patient experience, choice and convenience
• Improved patient and carer satisfaction
• More efficient utilisation of hospital capacity
• Greater opportunity to deliver appropriate care closer to home

By moving appropriate elements of cancer care out of hospital, providers can reduce avoidable travel and hospital attendance while maintaining access to safe, specialist clinical care and support.

Service performance is monitored through agreed reporting frameworks, enabling commissioners to evaluate activity, outcomes and operational performance.

Discuss Your Requirements

If your organisation is looking to expand cancer service capacity, reduce pressure on services or develop an at-home pathway for cancer patients, HomeLink Healthcare can help.

Our team will work with commissioners and providers to understand local priorities, design an appropriate clinical model and develop a scalable service that delivers measurable improvements across patient flow, patient experience, choice and access to care.

We work in partnership with healthcare providers to make appropriate cancer care at home a safe, effective and integrated part of the wider patient pathway.

Contact HomeLink Healthcare below to discuss your requirements and explore how we can support your local cancer services.