Some memories are always worth a revisit!
Here’s a special video capturing just a few of the highlights from our 2025 UKONS November conference held in Birmingham.
Look out for yourself & your colleagues in the video. Thanks Derek @Digi Deli.
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Thank-you for sharing our 20th Year Anniversary #UKONS2025! 🌟
Huge thanks to all who attended - our presenters, members, champions, supporting charities and our industry partners who helped to make it possible, including Media 1 Productions.
See you in Glasgow for #UKONS2026!
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#UKONS2025 saw the Handover of Presidency from Dr Karen Campbell to Dr Mary Tanay.
With sincere thanks to you, Karen for your supportive leadership and championing of cancer nursing. We look forward to furthering of the UKONS mission under your guidance, Mary.
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Not easy to say goodbye to these exceptional board & co-opted members stepping down from board @ #UKONS2025. Huge thanks for helping shape UKONS as we know it. 🌟
Mark Foulkes, @mfoulkes.bsky.social Lyndel Moore, Nellie Kumaralingam, Tracy Wilson, Sophie Maycock & Debora Franchini.
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Our #UKONS2025 Past President’s award went to Laura McNab. 🌟
Laura received the award ‘in recognition of her outstanding dedication and inspiring leadership in Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) Education’.
Congratulations Laura! 👏
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Fabulous #UKONS2025 Saturday session from Rebecca Pope, Data Scientist.
Real world learnings from GOSH Roche collaboration, show that integrating AI into healthcare is possible. The right people at the table can bring about great things. 🌟
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The Saturday pm #UKONS2025 breakout sessions proved a great way for members to share space in the following interests:
-Transformation in Workforce
- Advances in Surgical-oncology
- Acute Cancer Care
- Radiotherapy
Thank you to all presenters and session chairs.
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Saturday am breakout sessions @ #UKONS2025 packed an informative punch in the following categories.
- SACT
- Supportive Care
- Genomics
- Haematology-Onc
Thanks to all speakers and to the session chairs.
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During #UKONS2025, Dr. Helena Ullgren, President of European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) presents Professor Annie Young with an EONS Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to the field of cancer nursing. Truly well deserved!
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More #UKONS2025 highlights…
Super informative session to launch Day 2 of #UKONS2025 from Elaine Vickers (Clinical Educator & Speaker, Science Communicated Ltd) demystifying the successes behind 20 years of systematic SACT treatment and touching on the challenges ahead.
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What a way to end the day, closing reflections from Dr. Karen Campbell, an evening celebration at our Welcome reception, incorporating our 20th Anniversary awards in seven categories and a night of dancing and karaoke.
Congratulations to all our runner-ups and winners!
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Thought provoking session ‘Finding the Right Ladder’ delivered by Dr Lucy Gossage: Oncologist, Triathlete & Founder of Move Against Cancer
Lucy shared 3 powerful concepts that resonated deeply with our community:
1. Balance matters
2. Redefining failure
3. Find your why
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Thanks to all our speakers taking part in our four Friday afternoon breakout sessions of Clinical Practice, Education & Training, Leadership and management and Audit & Innovation.
Inspirational sessions and something for everyone to take away into practice.
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Professor Julian Marchesi, @Imperial College London, shares some powerful insights on the gut microbiome.
The use of intestinal microbiota transplants show promising signs to prehabilitate the gut for cancer treatment, improving future patient outcomes.
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We love showcasing the person-centred work you do!
Four standout oral abstracts were chosen for plenary. Thanks to Emma Davey, Dr. Jeff Hanna, Rachel O’Malley and Mary Albiona, for demonstrating nurses’ vital role in reducing disparities & changing practice.
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Dr Karen Campbell gives a warm welcome. #UKONS2025
Delighted to have Professor Annie Young and many past UKONS Presidents with us. Their collective expertise, commitment & leadership has contributed to the UKONS we know today.
‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’!
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Great to hear the buzz of arrival for #UKONS2025. It’s great to have you with us!
Social media highlights will be available on Linkedin, Insta & Bluesky. Once again we thank our Young and Early Career Nurses (YECCN) for helping out with a Insta takeover. 🤩
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It’s #UKONS2025 Conference Eve! And we’re ready! 🌟
We look forward to welcoming you all tomorrow @ICC Birmingham to mark 20 years of the ‘Inspirational in Cancer Nursing’.
Watch a welcome from Dr Karen Campbell, UKONS President here:
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20 years, 20 stories🌟
Dr Karen Campbell, UKONS President shares our final story, #20. Karen’s journey with UKONS began when she submitted a poster - proof to take opportunities!
Thank you, Karen, for sharing your story and for your sterling leadership as UKONS President.
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🎥 UKONS 20th Anniversary Films 🎥
Listen to Dr. Verna Lavender share the development of the Acute Oncology passport in our final set of films - a great example of collaboration as “Acute oncology is everyone’s business.”
With thanks to Verna.
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🌟20 years, 20 stories🌟
At story #19, Dr Mary Tanay shares how UKONS has enabled “growth, purpose and collaboration”. And it all started in Birmingham too!
For Mary, “UKONS is all of us — inspiring cancer nursing, together.”
Thank-you Mary for sharing your story.
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🌟 Introducing, our keynote speaker, @ #UKONS2025, Award-winning comedian, Laura Smyth🌟
Join us for an uplifting session, ‘Witty, Wobbly & Wonderfully Cared
For’.
Sometimes laughter isn’t just the best medicine, it’s also a wonderful teacher.
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🌟 20 stories, 20 years 🌟
Story #18 - Debora Franchini, Macmillan Lead Cancer CNS Personalised Care @Hampshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & YECCN MIG Co-Chair.
Thank-you for your YECCN passion & for sharing your encouraging journey.
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🌟 20 stories, 20 years 🌟
Story #17 comes from Laura McNab, Specialist Practice Educator (SACT) at The Christie Institute for Cancer Education.
Thank you, Laura, for your incredible contribution to UKONS and the wider cancer nursing community!
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🎥 UKONS 20th Anniversary Films 🎥
The third of our 20th Anniversary films comes from Dr Catherine Oakley Consultant Nurse at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s, former UKONS President and central founder of the SACT passport.
Full version is on our YouTube channel:
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🌟 20 stories, 20 years 🌟
Story #16 is from Joanne McNaughton, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Stirling.
“We all share the same driver, to support people with cancer and each other.”
Thank-you Joanne for sharing.
You can read here:
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Story #15 is from Dr Jeff Hanna, Ulster University/South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust.
For Jeff, UKONS is a “community that brings together” & embodies clinical academic cancer nursing.
Read Jeff’s story here:
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🌟 20 stories, 20 years 🌟
Story #14 includes two of our UKONS Champions! Hannah Churchill and Katie Matthews share about their experiences and how these have shaped their careers and professional growth.
Thank you both for sharing!
Read them here
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🎥 UKONS 20th Anniversary Films 🎥
On to the 2nd of our 20th Anniversary films by Philippa jones MBE, past Board Member and UKONS lead for the AOS triage tool.
The full version of the video can be found on our YouTube channel:
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🌟 20 Years, 20 Stories 🌟
Story #13 - UKONS: an agent for change!
From some of the oncology nurses at The Berkshire Cancer Centre.
A huge thank you to the team for sharing their journey with us!
🎥 Watch their story on our YouTube channel:
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