Cancer Community of Practice

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Our Cancer Community of Practice is a partnership, set up with NHS England (London Region), and Transforming Cancer Services Team for London and Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust, as part of the CLCH Academy. From November 2024, the hosting of the London Cancer CoP will transition from TCST to CLCH Academy.

The purpose of our Community of Practice is to provide a forum for primary care, community, and specialist cancer nurses (CNS) and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to share learning, collaborate and become an influential voice for change in relation to cancer across the cancer pathway.

Our regional Cancer Community of Practice runs an exciting, innovative programme of educational online webinar and in-person events, which brings primary care nurses, community nurses and CNS and AHPs together. Our online webinar events are also opened wider to our national colleagues, who can join these.

Each themed event features talks from our members, expert clinicians and other health and social care professionals. It provides opportunities for our members and other delegates to share learning and discuss innovative ideas to improve the care delivered to patients across the cancer pathway. Take a look at some of our forthcoming events below. 

Laryngectomy
Education and Training: Beyond the Hospital Stay (online)
6 November 2024:
12pm – 1:30pm
 (Rescheduled)

Identifying and managing cancer complications and late effects in the community - what do you need to know & how do you develop the skills​?

Thursday 23rd January 2025
12:00- 13.30 
 
About:
Are you interested in improving experience and quality of survivorship care? What skills and knowledge do community/primary care professionals need and how can we develop these? What are the barriers you/your colleagues face implementing any training? What does our workforce need to look like to better support survivorship?
 
Drawing on their research and coproduction projects into the experiences of staff and service users after laryngectomy, Laura-Jayne and Rhiannon will lead a collaborative event to look at how themes from this specialist field are mirrored across cancer pathways. We will work together to identify where the gaps are, what works well and what solutions might look like. The results of our discussions will be shared with all attendees after the event.

Speakers

1. Laura-Jayne Watson
 NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow 2023 - 2026
Clinical Lead Head and Neck Speech & Language Therapist, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
 
2. Rhiannon Haag
AHP Professional Lead (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) & Clinical Lead (Havering Place Team)
Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Head & Neck Speech & Language Therapy)

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London Cancer Community of Practice Autumn Face to Face Event

At this event we will be focusing on integration in cancer care.

Purpose for this half day session­:

  • Spotlight on integration of cancer care
  • Reflect on personalised care across community, secondary and primary care and what good looks like?
  • Consider the benefits and challenges to integrated cancer rehabilitation
  • Opportunity to develop professional networks across London with colleagues in a range of roles, across sectors.

Confirmed speakers and sessions:

Moving Personalised care closer to home

• Review the landscape regarding personalised care interventions in secondary and primary care

• Explore the current challenges and opportunities to integrate personalised care interventions in cancer

• Share examples of good practice and innovation

• Look at how personalised care may help in reduction of health inequalities by improving access to underserved communities

Nikki MacFarlane, Lead Nurse for System Anti-Cancer Therapies, Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Joyce Hernandez, Macmillan Personalised Care Project Manager, Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;

Cancer rehabilitation and integrated care

Speakers: Siobhan Cowan-Dickie, Associate Lead Therapies and Professional Lead of Physiotherapy
Lucy Dean, Service Lead Lymphoedema & Sarcoma Rehabilitation. Specialist Sarcoma Physiotherapist 
Both: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. In this session we will look at the example of sarcoma and explore communication and integration of cancer rehabilitation.

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Cancer treatment and diabetes- what do you need to know  

Friday 13th December 2024 at 1:00pm​​​​​​​
Speakers:
Irene Doldon
Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Vernova Healthcare CIC

Content:

  • Importance of blood glucose monitoring rather than relying on HbA1c
  • Use of Libre whilst having cancer  treatment (especially for those with chemotherapy induced neuropathy)
  • GLP-1 and SGLT2i risks with cancer treatment 
  • Use of Gliclazide- considerations 
  • Immunotherapy mediated Type 1 Diabetes - easily missed and misdiagnosed as Type 2
  • Steroids and the effects of SGLT2i 
  • When to refer to specialist services

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The UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference: View our Cancer Community of Practice presentation  from 17-18 November 2023.

In 2024, some of our Cancer CoP Steering Group members have successfully submitted abstracts resulting in presentations at the following regional, national, and international conferences:

  • RM Partners Conference for Nurses and AHPs, March 2024 (oral presentation)
  • NIHR Schools for Primary Care Research Primary Care Nursing Conference, March 2024, Keele University (oral presentation)
  • UK Oncology Professional Care Conference, Excel Centre London, May 2024 (oral presentation)
  • Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) International Conference, June 2024 (e-poster session)

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Picture: Sandra Dyer & Tracey Cole, presenting at the MASCC International Conference, June 2024.

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Picture: Sandra Dyer, presenting at the NIHR Schools for Primary Care Research Primary Care Nursing Conference, March 2024.

You can access presentations from the previous Cancer Community of Practice events here. Click to watch the events via the playlist.

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