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  1. Cancer Community of Practice for London: One Year On

    7 March 2024, 09:00 – 16:00 Join us at the CLCH Academy in central London for our first anniversary event, celebrating the success of the Cancer Community of Practice for London during its first year. Keynote speakers and topics are outlined below: Breaking Barriers and Bridging Health Disparities: Enhancing Cervical Screening Uptake and Expanding Access […]

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  2. NHS England launches next phase of national lung cancer awareness campaign

    On 18 September, NHS England launched another phase of the ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaign, focusing specifically on lung cancer symptoms. The campaign aims to increase knowledge of the key symptom of lung cancer – a cough that lasts three weeks or more – and encouraging those who have this symptom to contact their GP […]

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  3. New pan-London lymphoedema working group set to launch

    TCST is launching a pan-London lymphoedema working group in collaboration with the Pan London Lymphoedema Community of Practice. The programme will build on the previous work addressing the needs of Londoners experiencing lymphoedema as a consequence of cancer treatment, and the workforce that deliver this essential service.Focus areas that the group will be responsible for taking forward […]

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  4. Improving the bowel cancer pathway for local Bengali communities

    We’ll soon be kicking off a new project to improve the uptake of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in the Bengali community across north east London. Through the project, we’ll be working with staff at the Macmillan Centre at Newham Hospital to interview patients from the Bengali community who have been asked to undertake a FIT […]

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  5. Changes to primary care and community education and training

    Following discussion at the last meeting of the Primary Care and Community Education Group (PCCEG) in July and with other key stakeholders, there was agreement that: primary care and community education and training for personalised cancer care would be incorporated into the London Personalised Cancer Care Partnership Board; training for early diagnosis would be incorporated […]

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  6. Supporting patients completing FIT webinars for administrators and clinicians

    A webinar discussing the role of FIT and how administrative staff can best support patients took place on 19 September.Produced by GatewayC and supported by TCST, NHS England and the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance Early Diagnosis Team, the webinar was attended by over 160 people from across England. Primary care specialists discussed the role of […]

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  7. Call for healthcare professionals to support patients quit smoking this Stoptober

    Stoptober is back, calling on smokers in England to join the 2.5 million others who have made a quit attempt with the campaign since it first launched. Over 5 million adults in England still smoke, and it remains the biggest behavioural cause of preventable illness and death, with 64,000 deaths a year. This year’s Stoptober […]

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  8. Community Chests for London are supporting shared local investments to create healthier, happier communities

    By Dr Katie Coleman As Clinical Director of the Community Led Prevention programme at Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC), I am excited to bring my knowledge as a GP in Islington to help support the brilliant work of the community chests in London. I have already seen the power of this in Islington, […]

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  9. The pan-London homeless health programme becomes ‘Homeless Health London Partnership’

    What we do hasn’t changed The pan-London homeless health programme led by Transformation Partners in Health and Care becomes the Homeless Health London Partnership. This new brand marks a fresh start while reinforcing the programme’s commitment to its core mission. That is to improve the access to, experience of, and outcomes from health care for […]

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