Toolkits
Cancer Care Ontario develops toolkits to support healthcare professionals in Ontario. Toolkits are available for quality improvement, clinical areas, and patient and family engagement. They contain a range of resources including guides, forms, templates and helpful links.
Quality Improvement
Advanced Practice Nursing Toolkit
Helps healthcare organizations and teams design and deliver high-quality, cost-effective and patient-centred cancer services that use advanced nursing or other health provider roles.
Clinical Specialist Radiation Therapist Toolkit (email)
A comprehensive set of tools for envisioning, developing, implementing and evaluating new advanced practice healthcare roles in the public domain. Email the Radiation Treatment Program to request access.
Colposcopist Toolkit
Tools for best practice delivery of colposcopy services, including pathways, and referral and discharge templates.
Imaging Toolkit
Helps radiologists and other imaging professionals provide consistent and high-quality imaging according to best practices.
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicity Management Toolkit
Tools to help providers and their patients manage the side effects that may occur from immune checkpoint inhibitor medications.
Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference Tools
Documents and tools to help hospital staff develop new or modify current Multidisciplinary Cancer Conferences – meetings where healthcare providers discuss diagnosis and treatment options of people with cancer.
Primary Care Quality Improvement Toolkits
For primary care providers submitting Quality Improvement Plans to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. These toolkits help providers plan, implement, monitor and report on quality improvements.
Self-Management in Cancer Toolkit
Resources on self-management in cancer, including articles, guidelines, courses and measurement tools. Resources are for healthcare providers and patients.
Palliative Care
Palliative Care Tools
Best-practice tools from around the world to help support primary care providers with palliative care delivery. Available from the Ontario Palliative Care Network.
Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal Communities
Supports First Nations, Inuit and Métis people with cancer who have palliative care needs, as well as those providing care.
Person-Centred Care
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Cancer 101 Toolkit
Find educational resources about cancer, cancer treatment and other cancer topics.
Patient and Family Advisory Council Toolkit
Intended for any organization that wishes to engage patients and their families in advisory councils to improve patient experiences with health services.
Staging
Cancer Staging Tools
Guidelines and process information to support healthcare providers involved in the staging process.