Patients receiving cancer treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have rated care above the national average with a '9 out of 10' overall score.
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The Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2025, published in September, found the Trust performed above the expected range in a number of areas. These included: patients being able to discuss their worries with hospital staff and the level of information provided.
The survey also shows a number of significant improvements over the longer term. Between 2021 and 2025, ten questions showed significant improvement including involving family members and carers and providing information about managing the impact of side effects.
One patient who was pleased with the care she received was Carly Honeycombe from Sheffield. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35 year old and is now cancer free two years later. Carly said: "The care and support I received at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals was excellent. I felt involved in my treatment plan and fully informed about the different options available to me. The doctors and nurses took the time to get to know me as a person, rather than just moving me through the system. I felt listened to, my wishes were respected, and specialists actively explored new treatment options for me. I would absolutely recommend Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. If someone I loved needed to go through a similar experience, I would feel reassured knowing they were in the care of the teams here."
The survey also identified areas where further improvement is needed. This included the length of time waiting for diagnostic test results.
Prof Chris Morley, Chief Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We are pleased that patients have given such positive feedback about their care but we are not complacent because whilst the quality of care is good when patients receive it, the wait for assessment and some forms of treatment is longer than we want and patients should expect. We have already made some changes to how we work this year including having more frequent multi-disciplinary team review meetings so that treatment decisions and plans can be made with minimum delay. Also more one stop clinics are enabling patients to have their assessment, diagnostics and sometimes results in one visit. This means we can also let people know quickly that they do not have cancer which is equally important given the worry any cancer referral can cause."
