SELCA recently launched a new education resource to support primary care professionals to identify patients who require an urgent suspected cancer referral. The online resource will comprise of seven bitesize modules, each focusing on a specific cancer or group of cancers, and can be completed within 10 minutes. The first module on myeloma was released […]

TCST recently worked with colleagues from St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to develop a demand and capacity modelling approach for chemotherapy services. The initial project scope was to better understand demand for the trust chemotherapy service over the previous three years to explore concerns around lack of capacity and a reliance on overtime. […]

As we approach the end of the year, it’s an ideal opportunity to reflect on the success of our cancer waits guidance training in 2023 and the feedback we’ve received from participants. This year, we delivered training to over 700 colleagues from across London. The value of the training is evident in the extremely positive […]

Back in November, changes were announced to diagnostic pathway for adult soft tissue sarcoma referrals in London. Services will be divided into ‘hubs’ (tertiary services providing treatment and clinical oversight) and ‘spokes’ (services delivering local diagnostics, from further imaging to pathology). The Hubs are the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) and the London Sarcoma Service, which […]

The London Lymphoedema Community of Practice (CoP) was established in 2018 to foster peer-to-peer support amongst lymphoedema practitioners and other interested parties and address shared needs across the professional lymphoedema community in London. To date, the group has delivered several key outputs, including revised commissioning guidance and the development of a service specification to raise […]

TCST is leading a workforce programme on the provision of care and treatment for people living with lymphoedema in the capital. ​​The main objectives of the programme are: The programme team has established a Lymphoedema Service User Group to gain a better understanding of the needs of those living with lymphoedema. The first meeting took place in […]

A project to promote the use of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in hospital emergency departments is now running in north east London. The pilot project has gone live at the Partnership of East London Cooperatives (PELC) and Urgent Care Department at Queen’s Hospital. The local project team has so far recruited 25 patients with a […]