The trust has oversight of the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, the Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
Improvements included the start of a bowel cancer screening programme, work on a new database to underpin a cervical screening programme and the positive impact of the trust’s new urology intervention unit in Redditch, Mr Collman said.
Progress was also being made on referring patients to cancer specialists at neighbouring trusts including in Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and Birmingham.
Jade Brooks, director of operations and delivery at NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire, described the Tier 1 arrangement as being involved in a “supportive arrangement, so that we have access to national experts in cancer as well as the Department of Health, as well as trusts where they have done good work, so we learn from their good practice.”
