Are you a primary care or community nurse or an Allied Health Professional (AHP) passionate about improving cancer care? Our next Cancer Community of Practice event will discuss enhanced supportive care for cancer and the benefits for patients. Guest speakers: Nikki Macfarlane: Lead Nurse – Enhanced Supportive Care, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Lucie Summerfield […]
Are you interested in the role of primary care in improving healthcare for people living with cancer? The National Primary Care informal discussion group is an online group for anyone with an interest in personalised cancer care and the role of primary care. The group has been established by the Transforming Cancer Services Team (TCST). […]
The Transforming Cancer Services Team recently teamed up with Macmillan Cancer Support to host a pan-London workshop ‘Who Cares About Personalised Cancer Care in London’. The full-day session brought together people affected by cancer, carers, clinicians, specialist cancer nurses, NHS commissioners and other key decision makers. It was an incredibly inspiring and thought-provoking day, filled […]
The Cancer Community of Practice (CoP) has been developed through a pan-London cancer education programme for primary care and community nurses in 2022/23; the Cancer in the Community programme. This programme was delivered by Central London Community Health Learning Academy (CLCH) in partnership with Transforming Cancer Services and Health Education England. The CoP aims to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Community of Practice is a collaboration between Transformation Partners in Health and Care, NHS England (London Region) and the Central London Community Healthcare Academy. The purpose of the Community of Practice is to provide a forum for primary care, community and specialist cancer nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to share learnings, collaborate and […]