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📢 Abstract submissions are now OPEN for UKONS 2026!
This year is all about Innovation, Inclusion & Impact. See here to submit an abstract: ukons.org/conference/u...
Abstracts close 26 June.
📍 SEC, Glasgow 13–14 November
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#Innovation #Inclusion #Impact #CallForAbstracts
The most efficient & effective way to help someone is to understand need, & then meet need.
Understanding need requires good quality listening. Meeting need requires services being available & smooth movement between services.
I think this is the best way to think about efficiency & effectiveness.
Good analysis of what needs to happen to ensure adoption of cancer care innovations but 🥱 so disappointing that the piece implies innovation only happens in diagnosis & treatment. There’s a lot in the Cancer Plan about #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer - what about innovation for long term quality of life?
Celebrating small wins is a powerful part of Supported Self Management—especially when living with a long-term health condition.
It helps shift focus from “what I can’t do” to “what I am doing,” which builds confidence, motivation, and resilience over time.
#InspireSelfMgt
A recently published case report from DPhil in Cancer Science alumna, Hannah Fuchs (@ndm.ox.ac.uk), illustrates diagnostic overshadowing of anorexia nervosa in paediatric oncology survivors.
Read the full report on @bmc.springernature.com 👇
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The risk that cancer survivors will develop a subsequent primary cancer (SPC) has risen over the last 20 years, according to research published in Cancer Medicine.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📢Our next webinar is on 6th May: "Improving how physical activity is assessed in primary care" (held in collaboration with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight). Registration page can be found here: bit.ly/4sBm83U and you can read more about our joint research project here: bit.ly/3OFsvFA
🧓 The legacy NABCOP guide continues to offer valuable insight into care for older people with breast cancer. It supports teams by outlining key measures and helping improve understanding of patient pathways 📖 www.natcan.org.uk/library/lega... #BreastCancerAudit #NAoMe @natcan-news.bsky.social
Have you had cancer? Did you finish your initial treatment before 2024?
You can help researchers improve cancer care for your family, friends and anyone affected by the disease by filling out this survey.
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"By moving money away from delivering care that generates health gains more cheaply to drugs that generate health gains at greater expense, the NHS could end up less able to improve overall health from the same budget" - @healthfoundation.bsky.social
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According to the Women's Health Strategy, any funding withheld due to poor experiences under new patient power payments would be used for targeted improvements to the same service. So not really withheld at all. That seems less powerful than the rhetoric suggested.
🚨6 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY for the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards Innovation Award!
Innovation doesn’t have to mean something completely novel. Sometimes, it’s about doing something slightly differently - with meaningful outcomes for patients.🌟
Fantastic to see an AHP leading on cancer prehabilitation research - as it should be!
Headshot of Clair Le Boutillier and title: Co-designed personalised cancer care: Read the fellowship story
Clair Le Boutillier brought patient perspectives directly to healthcare professionals to help co-design & improve personalised cancer care in her fellowship.
Read about her award-winning project: ths.im/4cwnLLt
End of Life Care in Frailty - This guidance has been produced to support clinicians and others in providing high-quality care for older people living with frailty as they move towards the end of their lives. Read the full guidance here: buff.ly/8AfKHIG
A pity this @jama.com review didn’t include or even mention the chronic diarrhoea experienced by some people after cancer treatment 😕
Highly recommend the @britsocgastro.bsky.social guidelines gut.bmj.com/content/74/7... which cover all acute and chronic GI problems during or after cancer treatment
New paper considers what we should aim for when addressing uncertainty from serious illness.
Important elements are finding security together by reframing uncertainty and moving forward through parallel planning.
Great work Rachel & team!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The image shows a person with brown hair smiling wearing a blue shirt in front of a purple background, with text: 'Simply getting EPRs into place was never going to deliver significant benefits by itself. These benefits will come only from a concerted effort to develop effective ways of using them.'
The NHS has invested billions in getting electronic patient records (EPRs) through the door, but comparatively little in making them work well.
In this new blog, Alex Lawrence argues this will have to change if the health service is to reap the rewards of digitisation ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3OqFXwW
Grateful to the many healthcare professionals helping improve recognition of #PelvicRadiationDisease (PRD). Using the term PRD helps validate patients’ experiences and supports better long-term care.
👉Take the pledge: prda.org.uk/the-pelvic-radiation-disease-pledge/
#PRDPledge #SupportiveOncology
This study shows that therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (AML) tripled between 1990 and 2020.
Improved cancer survival = more people experiencing the long-term effects of treatments such as secondary cancers acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: Fertility Preservation in People With Cancer. Published online February 26, 2026. Guideline Title: Fertility Preservation in People With Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update. Release Date March 19, 2025.
Fertility preservation guidance from the American Society of Clinical Oncology supports timely counseling on fertility risks for all patients with cancer.
Learn more in this JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: ja.ma/4tmkULr
Digital tools & #AI may help detect and manage treatment related toxicities during chemoradiotherapy.
A study in ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology highlights both the promise and challenges of continuous activity monitoring.
#ESMODailyReporter 🔗 https://ow.ly/Njbk50YGnOn
Rodrigo Dienstmann
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1/2 - We have updated our one-page poster on accessible information which offers simple tips to help you make your resources more accessible.
Tips include using clear subheadings, aiming for a reading age of 9-11, and using plain language.
📘 The NAoMe COSD recurrence guide supports teams in capturing recurrence data clearly and consistently. Using it helps strengthen national reporting and improves the accuracy of outcome measures 📊 www.natcan.org.uk/library/guid... #BreastCancerAudit #NAoMe @natcan-news.bsky.social
Good to see the job advert is up for the National Cancer Board - co-chair.
This is a really important role in driving forward progress to improve cancer outcomes in this country and deliver the ambitions of the National Cancer Plan for England👇
www.gov.uk/government/o...
Thank you so much Sara for your superb and very generous support and advice for @prda.org.uk
🌟 Spotlight on our Medical Advisers 🌟
Our Medical Advisory Panel is made up of UK experts, dedicated to improving care for people with #PelvicRadiationDisease (PRD).
Meet Professor Sara Faithfull and discover her work: https://ow.ly/SJ0450YCeGf
To celebrate 9th April World Psycho-oncology day, a group of local oncologists, health care professionals, academics, and patient advocates came together and made a series of videos to raise awareness of the importance of psychosocial care in cancer care.
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Reminder to self as I see some patients again after a few days off work... people with chronic health conditions don't get a 'day off' from having to cope, to manage, to think about how they are, how their treatment's going... important to remember this.