Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program - All-Cancer Nurse Service Cancer Navigation Service

Overview

The Australian Government has committed up to $186.18 million over four years for the Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program (the Program). It will contribute to achieving the outcomes in the Australian Cancer Plan (ACP), under Strategic Objective 2 to develop and implement an integrated and multidisciplinary navigation model.  There are 5 Activities under the Program. This grant opportunity is for the provision of Activities 1, 2 and 3 totalling $113.95 million:  Activity 1 – All-cancer nurse service: up to $50.54 million for the McGrath Foundation to deliver an all-cancer nursing service, including an additional 100 Commonwealth-funded all-cancer nurses and transitioning the existing 148 nurses tumour specific nurses; and up to $2.31 million for the Lung Foundation Australia (LFA) to continue the delivery of specialist lung cancer nurses to 2025-26 to support the transition of these nurses to the all-cancer nurses model by 2026-27.   Activity 2 – Cancer navigation service: up to $49.6 million for Cancer Council Australia to deliver a digital cancer navigation service to enable multidisciplinary teams to assess and connect patients with appropriate information and clinical care across the cancer continuum.  Activity 3 – Child and Youth Cancer Hub: up to $11.5 million for Canteen, in collaboration with Camp Quality and Redkite, to deliver the Cancer Hub, providing tailored cancer navigation services for young people with cancer and their families.  To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.