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  1. National informal discussion group for primary care: Personalised Care and Cancer

    Transforming Cancer Services is hosting a discussion group to bring together primary care clinicians, commissioners, cancer personalised care leads and third sector colleagues. The focus of the group will be to discuss how primary care multi professional teams can provide personalised care for people living with and beyond cancer and improve the patient experience. The […]

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  2. Transforming the sarcoma diagnostic pathway

    Transforming Cancer Services has been supporting the London and South East Sarcoma Network’s (LSESN) clinical advisory group and London Region Specialised Commissioning team on the soft tissue sarcoma diagnostic pathway. In November, we held a successful workshop with key stakeholders across London, the East and South East of England, which identified three key challenges: Addressing […]

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  3. Improving GP direct access to diagnostics

    In response to the recent national drive to improve detection of cancer by expanding GP direct access to diagnostics, Transforming Cancer Services has been working with London clinical and ICS leaders on a project to develop a shared understanding of the issues preventing uptake of direct access imaging by GPs across the city.The national directive is […]

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  4. New Cancer Waits Guidance training package launched across London

    With cancer waiting times remaining a priority for the NHS, Transforming Cancer Services has collaborated with Cancer Alliances in London to design a training package supporting accessible standardisation of cancer waits training across the region. In January, two training sessions covering Cancer Waits and Best Practice Timed Pathways were delivered to over 140 colleagues from […]

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  5. Exploring the psychological impact of the cancer diagnostic pathway

    Transforming Cancer Services is delighted to be presenting at the British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) Conference in March. Our presentation will focus on the work we completed in 2022 on behalf of the North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) and in collaboration with the NCL Cancer Alliance addressing the psychological impact of a […]

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  6. London’s Great Mental Health Day returns to get Londoners talking about their mental health

    On Friday, 27 January 2023, London will host its second Great Mental Health Day to get Londoners talking about mental health, destigmatise asking for help and raise awareness of the great support available across the region. What is Great Mental Health Day? Great Mental Health Day 2023 is a London-wide initiative in its second year […]

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  7. 2022 partnerships look back: transforming health and care in London

    As we approach the end of 2022, we are looking back on some of the transformation and improvement work we’ve planned and delivered with partners across health and care and the VCSE sector over the past 12 months. People on HIV treatment can’t pass it on.HIV.Get tested.Get treated! You can see highlights from the team’s […]

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  8. New toolkit for tackling health inequalities in primary care through social prescribing, care coordination and health and wellbeing coaching

    Healthy London Partnership has launched a new toolkit to help decrease the health inequalities faced by Londoners in the most deprived and underserved communities. The practical online resource will support GPs, practice managers and others working in primary care establish a thriving workforce that includes social prescribing link workers, care coordinators and health and wellbeing […]

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  9. Healthy London Partnership and Healthcare Consulting unite to strengthen transformation impact

    Healthy London Partnership and Healthcare Consulting have come together as a single team, called ‘Transformation Partners in Health and Care’ (TPHC). The new name and identity reflect the core values that underpin the team’s partnerships and consultancy services. The way we work isn’t changing but together we are stronger, with our unique blend of expertise, […]

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  10. Introducing Community Chests – a model for a thriving voluntary and community sector to support social prescribing in London

    Here at Healthy London Partnership, we’re on a mission to ensure London’s social prescribing system is not only sustainable but thriving.  But we, and the partners we work with to make this happen, are increasingly aware of just how challenging this is, especially right now. Public services are overwhelmed, the voluntary sector is starved of […]

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