Are members of multidisciplinary teams in breast cancer aware of each other's informational roles?

Aim-To conduct a commissioned survey of multidisciplinary breast team membe rs' expectations of their own and each other's roles in providing different kinds of information to women with breast cancer. Design-Questionnaire based survey. Setting and participants-Health professi onals from five multidisciplinary breast care centres within a Sussex healt h authority. Main outcome measures-Interdisciplinary awareness of informational roles pl ayed by different team members. Results and conclusions-The results of the team survey suggest that, in most cases, health professionals fulfilled the roles expected of them by the team, with two or three individuals identifi ed as the main providers of information for each topic. However, many more professionals were involved in major discussions without the team's knowled ge. The professional consistently playing a major "Unseen" role was the bre ast nurse specialist.