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Designed for NHS professionals leading oncology nurse-led telephone assessments: this online workshop will provide practical tools, crucial guidance and new skills to ensure safe, competent and timely remote triaging of patients. By delving into interactive and hands-on tasks you will be sure to leave this immersive day having mastered your new skills, ready to implement in your triage process.
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Lead your team to deliver optimal telephone triage hotlines: what you will learn
Are you continually striving to improve your management of patients accessing your assessment hotline? Would you benefit from practical, structured and tested guidance that will work in your service? If yes, then this online workshop is for you. Book your place and refocus on:
Attend this online NHS oncology workshop from the comfort of your own home
Take away useful techniques and new processes to develop your nurse-led telephone assessment:
9:00 |
Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms
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9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks
Ali Hodge, Acute Oncology and Immunotherapy Advanced Clinical Practitioner, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. Ali will be joined by Steve Bass, Lead Nurse End of Life Care, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
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9:40 |
How to become a telephone triage detective
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10:30 |
Interactive discussion: Navigating the unknown during your virtual triage consultation
Opportunity for attendees to share their experiences in meeting rooms, then return to the main conference to feedback with the course leader
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10:50 |
Screen break
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11:00 |
Interactive discussion feedback: Navigating the unknown during your virtual triage consultation
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11:10 |
Developing your assessment tools and solidifying your triage pathway
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12:30 |
Lunch break
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1:15 |
Continue your teams’ competencies and education
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1:35 |
Interactive action planning: Assess and enhance your current assessment tool
Bring your triage assessment process along to the workshop and your workshop leader, Ali Hodge, will work with you to hone your tool and ensure you have the best possible practices in place to provide high quality and accurate triage and referral of your patients.
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1:45 |
Effective team working in triage
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2:20 |
Screen break
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Interactive task: Reflecting on your existing communication skills
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3:20 |
Question and answer session
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3:30 |
Chair’s closing remarks and close of workshop
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Share in first-hand experience
This unique workshop will share practical tools driven by experience and will be brought to life by Ali Hodge. Ali has recently been described as “extremely helpful with her current empathy and understanding of the complexities surrounding triage”. Others who have benefited from her online training wrote; “I really liked Ali's 'real-world' stance on the challenges we all face” and “I love that Ali was so animated, passionate and realistic about what is achievable with current NHS resources”.
Ali Hodge is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Acute Oncology and Immunotherapy at University Hospitals Sussex. Her role was the first in Acute Oncology and Immunotherapy at University Hospitals Sussex. Her role was created to help develop the acute oncology service, along with the development of an immunotherapy toxicity service and acute oncology assessment unit. The role is varied including patient assessment and management (both inpatients and outpatients), supporting the assessment of Cancer patients in the ambulatory setting and Emergency departments. Supporting the SACT nurses on the telephone triage line, and developing the nurses working areas where cancer patients are managed.
Ali qualified from Brighton University with a BSc (Hons) European Nursing Studies. It was during her studies that her passion and commitment to cancer care was developed. Ali has 23 years’ experience in cancer care and is an active member of both UKONS and EONS. Her career has included being a matron, lecturer-practitioner and advanced nurse practitioner.
Ali has presented both nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects, including acute oncology, immunotherapy and career development within this emerging field of nursing. Ali has worked on a number of local and national documents to ensure equality in the provision of support for patient with side effects of their cancer treatment.
Ali’s main area of interest is medical and clinical oncology with a specific interest in the care of patient with side effects from cancer treatment. Ali is passionate about cancer nursing with a focus on advanced practice within cancer nursing.
Pricing Structure
You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding
Expected attendees
This online interactive workshop is ideal for NHS professionals working across Haematology, Acute Oncology, SACT, Immuno-Oncology or other Oncology services, who utilise telephone and virtual assessments. This includes but is not limited to:
Past attendee feedback
"Thank you for a new set of knowledge provided. It is definitely appreciated"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, October 2022
"Very informative, great session"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, October 2022
"Great day, wonderful teaching sessions by Ali & Steve & well organised by Emma. Hope you will produce more sessions, so we can encourage people to attend"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, October 2022
"Really good day. Well organised. Great speakers, really passionate professionals. Really well delivered topics to support and improve the patient experience alongside promoting staff wellbeing in a demanding service. Great how everyone got involved to enhance the learning experience"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, October 2022
"I thought this forum was great, there is very little education and support around telephone triage in cancer care so this forum has been really beneficial in building confidence and confirming what we do in our organisation is correct"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, October 2022
"I found this very helpful. It confirmed that most of us have the same issues. Nice to hear how others deal with signposting and assessment. It was nice to have confirmation that we are all on the correct track and the importance of using the UKONs tool"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, May 2022
"Informative presentations and helpful to be able to hear from others taking the course about their experiences"
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, May 2022
"Very interesting and clear explanations. The presentations from Ali and Stephen was excellent."
Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, May 2022
“Excellent. Actually one of the best I've attended. Pitched perfectly and I understood it!”
Recognising and Treating ImmunoOncology (IO) Side Effects, July 2021
“I found it very friendly, and very informative. it was nice to talk to other areas before the presentation started in small groups and learn a bit about how other areas process are for triage and assessment of their patients”
Recognising and Treating ImmunoOncology (IO) Side Effects, July 2021
“Interesting, informative! The online format has meant that more people can attend from a wider geography”
Recognising and Treating ImmunoOncology (IO) Side Effects, July 2021
“It was very informative and great to see what other trusts do”
Recognising and Treating ImmunoOncology (IO) Side Effects, July 2021
"I am so grateful for the knowledge acquired through my first virtual conference. It was very well organised with technical support provided. Speakers were excellent and content was very appropriate and relevant”
Managing Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy, December 2020
“Informative, friendly and highly appropriate content. Really exciting day as it felt like networking and being present at a physical conference, so thank you for making it so warm and welcoming”
Managing Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy, December 2020
“It was an excellent conference with really interesting sessions. I felt that the virtual aspect went well with support being readily available and helpful”
Managing Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy, December 2020
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