GM Cancer Recovery Package Workshop: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
This event, which was fully funded by Macmillan Cancer Support, took place on 5th December 2018. Over 40 professionals from across Greater Manchester came together to consider issues around the implementation of the Recovery Package for all patients. Themes included:
- taking stock of progress so far
- looking at priorities for 2019
- considering barriers to achieving full implementation, and
- devising solutions to overcome these
- making links with the Prehab4Cancer programme
Representatives from Macmillan Cancer Support were attendance, as was Lesley Smith, the LWBC Senior Programme Manager at NHS England. The slides of the presentations given by all speakers are now available here:
Taking stock: challenges, achievements and progress…and looking forwards
Macmillan and GM Cancer: Aspirations for our new strategic partnership
The national perspective on LWBC
The Prehab4Cancer project: developing the relationship with the recovery package
Macmillan: sharing learning and development resources
Treatment Summaries: rollout via the Pathway Boards and Trust-level implementation
Health and Wellbeing Activity: barriers and successes; variety of approaches; sustainability?
Greater Manchester Cancer Conference 2018
The Greater Manchester Cancer Conference was held on 26th November 2018 at The Point at Lancashire Cricket Ground, Old Trafford. It was attended by approximately 550 delegates, comprising service users and healthcare professionals and managers from primary, secondary and social care.
Colorectal Cancer – Best Timed Pathway
The CURE Project – Treating Tobacco Addiction in Hospital
Haematological Cancer Diagnostic Partnership
Greater Manchester Optimal Lung Cancer Pathway
Greater Manchester Cancer Prehab4Cancer and Rehab Programme
Greater Manchester Cancer Skin Pathway
