Authors' reply

EDITOR,—We share Moli Paul's view of the importance of psychosocial care for patients with cancer, which has received specific attention in recent national reports.1 2 Our paper, however, was focused on facilities and activity levels at cancer centres. Psychosocial care depends critically on the provision of adequate numbers of appropriately trained staff. As we indicated, we are undertaking further work in relation to staffing. This includes benchmarking of staffing levels for nurse specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and palliative care specialists. The results will be reported when they …