CMC in the news

At CMC, we are always looking for new ways to raise awareness of the benefits of urgent care planning: among patients, healthcare professionals and the public alike.

Since we launched it, our service has attracted a great deal of interest, from specialist medical journals to mainstream media. CMC has been profiled on national TV, praised in Parliament and has earned a prestigious award for NHS innovation. We have collected the best of this content here:

The Royal Marsden

New NHS online care plan gives chronically ill patients and those who are dying more control over their emergency care

13 May 2019

Patients, professionals and Health Secretary Matt Hancock back launch of myCMC, the patient-facing online urgent care plan that empowers people with long term conditions and those at the end of their lives share their wishes about the care they want to receive.

People with long term conditions and those at the end of their lives are to be empowered to share vital information and preferences around their care with healthcare professionals, through a new NHS online urgent care plan launching today.

Backed by Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, myCMC enables patients to start a care plan that shares information about their treatment wishes and needs with emergency care providers, such as 111, out of hours GPs, and the ambulance service.

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