An exploration of nursing and Allied Health Professional (AHP)-led post-treatment surveillance and survivorship care for people with head and neck cancer—a scoping review

A small body of evidence suggests that nursing and AHP professionals can provide an effective and safe service of follow-up care in HNC management. Clinics led by advanced practitioners (AP) may provide an opportunity to deliver enhanced care and meet QoL needs. Within a rapidly developing and changing landscape of post-treatment surveillance nurses and AHPs are well placed to provide advice, support and interventions for treatment effects. More evidence is needed to develop new models of risk stratified nursing/AHP surveillance and the competencies required to ensure the complex holistic needs of individuals are safely and effectively met.