Featuring presentation videos and accompanying slides: Come together with your acute oncology colleagues from across the country to share experiences and discover case studies of different approaches to improving services. This is the perfect opportunity to consolidate your ideas and return to your role with an implementable and practical strategy to overcome your challenges. Take one day out to benefit from valuable, inspiring and thought provoking presentations and interactive discussions.
3 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Are you continually striving to develop your acute oncology service and improve your patient pathways? If yes, then this online forum is for you. Book your place and refocus on:
Meet your education and training needs in your own time
Take away ideas from the trailblazers and adapt them for your own service, plus benefit from:
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Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Liz Gifford, Acute Oncology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Oncology Assessment Unit, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
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| National update | |
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Latest developments in acute oncology: exploring the benefit to your service
Mark Foulkes, UKONS President, Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse and Nurse Consultant, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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| Delivering Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) | |
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Case study: Establishing an acute oncology assessment unit to deliver SDEC
Liz Feather, Staff Nurse, Oncology Assessment Unit and Kathryn Shaw, Haematology and Oncology Ward Manager, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Questions and answers with your speakers
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| Enhancing your telephone triage | |
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Managing patients with challenging complications in your telephone triage
Joanne Thomas, Triage Ward Manager, Oncology and Haematology Triage Assessment Area, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Questions and answers with your speakers
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| Developing your seven day service | |
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Case study: Setting up and establishing your seven-day-a-week service
Naomi Clatworthy, Acute Oncology Nurse Consultant and UKONS Board Member, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
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Questions and answers with your speakers
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Developing the role of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in acute oncology
Mike Varey, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, The Clatterbridge Centre NHS Foundation Trust
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Questions and answers with your speakers
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Chair’s closing remarks and close of day
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Your confirmed speakers to date:
Mark has been in post as Nurse Consultant and Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse at the Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust since 2007. He is the current President of the UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS). He has been a UKONS board member since 2018 he also edits the twice monthly e-newsletter.
He still works clinically on the Acute Oncology Team and during the COVID-19 pandemic he continued to work at the Royal Berkshire Hospital seeing patients. He also works strategically to help manage the Trusts response to the crisis. He helped establish the Trust’s ‘staff COVID swabbing’ regimen and helped establish the hospital’s ‘virtual’ Cancer Rehabilitation sessions, which have been very successful. Mark has presented widely on a range of subjects and has a particular interest in nurse-led services, innovative approaches to cancer care delivery and the political backdrop to cancer services.
He has an interest in music and, in normal non-COVID times, runs a monthly music night. He is a keen cyclist. In 2015 he rode from Reading to Barcelona for charity on a tandem with one of his consultant colleagues.
Liz qualified in 2013 from the university of Nottingham with a degree in nursing. She started her career spending 4 years in Stroke and discovered a real passion for cancer care. Liz started working on the inpatient cancer unit at Lincoln County Hospital in 2017 where she immediately felt that this is where she wanted to spend her career.
Liz soon became Chemotherapy trained and spent some time as a deputy ward manger. The Oncology Assessment Unit at Lincoln County Hospital opened in 2019 and she began working within the unit in 2021 following maternity leave. Liz most enjoys the autonomy of the unit and working closely alongside the multi-disciplinary and patients. She enjoys being innovative and working on projects. Liz is currently involved in a standardised New Patient Talk that will be used pan trust which will bring their knowledge in line with best practice. In the future, her goals are to be more involved in AOS and she would love to be an ACP within oncology/Haematology.
Naomi currently works as an Acute Oncology Nurse Consultant at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple. Naomi has worked within a variety of ward and outpatient cancer care settings during her nursing career. She moved to North Devon in 2015 to support the establishment of the Acute Oncology Service within the acute trust. This nurse led service now runs over 7 days and has been nationally recognised for its innovative nurse led approach. Naomi is a UKONS and UKAOS board member and is the board lead for the AOS MIG, she is also a Specialist Advisor for the CQC. Raising the profile of Acute Oncology is a real passion for Naomi, she is also focused on the development of advanced practice within nursing roles recognising how they enhance the quality of the service provided.
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Past attendee feedback
‘Very informative and accessible.’
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
‘Very well organised and managed really well, enjoyed the interactivity of the day.’
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
‘I found Naomi Clatworthy to be inspiring and engaging. Liz Feather did an excellent job, particularly as this was her first ever National conference’
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
‘All very interesting and informative has left me with lots to think about for our service development. Very well put together and managed well between speakers and participants engagement’
UHS Western Sussex NHS foundation trust
'The breakout rooms worked really well. It was good to network and be in rooms with others at different times’
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
‘Lots of experience in cancer care and acute oncology nice to meet others and share ideas’
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn Norfolk
“It was an excellent conference with really interesting sessions. I felt that the virtual aspect went well with support being readily available and helpful”
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Who came?
If you purchase and view the presentation video and accompanying sides, you will be in good company! The following is an insight into the job titles and organisations who came to Enhance your Acute Oncology Service Delivery when it was held on Wednesday 25th May: