“…3, suggested strategies for strengthening services to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 disruption, include optimising opportunities for enhanced innovation, providing data and intelligence in near real-time, increasing investment in cancer services, strategies to protect public health (particularly relating to cancer prevention), and provision of adequate infrastructure. These are concordant with recommendations from professional societies and organisations [78] and reflect the threefold increased risk of pandemics in the future [79]. Additional support for digital infrastructure was recognised across many of the multi-disciplinary perspectives, including enhanced cybersecurity to mitigate further cyber-attacks, harmonised diagnostic services between and within public and private hospitals to improve inter-hospital connectivity and integration of multidisciplinary patient care.…”