Events Calendar

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.

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This 2 day online course provides an introduction to the nature of cancer and is primarily aimed at non-clinical staff. It is also suitable for health and social care practitioners and those wishing to increase their understanding of cancer

Day 1 - Online via MS Teams

Day 2 - Online via MS Teams

This is an intermediate level communication skills study day for:

• Any care professional who communicates with people facing or affected by serious or life limiting illness/frailty, and directly responsible for gathering and giving information, including as part of identifying problems, needs and concerns. This may include as part of assessments, admissions, planning, and discharge and consultation episodes
• Examples include: Doctors, Nurses, Radiographers, Allied Health Professionals, Senior support workers (i.e. specifically involved in gathering patient information as part of assessment), Social Workers

This study day is to provide education around Radiology image intepretation to help improve basic understanding and confidence in looking at scan images and reports.

Open to Doctors of all grades, Nurses, AHPs and Pharmacists who provide care for patients undergoing Immunotherapy. Join us for a collaborative, face-to-face event.

This online academic module aims to provide opportunity for learners to critically appraise the context of living with and beyond cancer,whilst analysing national/local drivers that aim to influence practice in their own area.

The course is relevant to a wide range of Professionals who work within settings which support the needs of those living with and beyond cancer.

This module is suitable for those with appropriate background qualifications to study at Masters Level 7.  This course can be taken as CPD or as part of the MSc Cancer Care Programme pathway.

This 1 semester module runs once a year commencing in April of each year.

The module is asynchronous, meaning the teaching content is released on a Tuesday for 6 consecutive weeks of the module.

 The module is asynchronous & content will be released weekly, on the following dates:

Week1: Tuesday 21^st April 2026

Week 2: Tuesday 28^th April 2026

Week 3: Tuesday 5^th May 2026

Week 4: Tuesday 12^th May 2026

Week 5: Tuesday 19^th May 2026

Week 6: Tuesday 26^th May 2026

Please contact the Module Lead for specific details regarding assessment submission deadlines:

Module Lead: Kat Birch kathryn.birch7@nhs.net

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.

This event is specific to CAR-T therapy and would be relevant for those working in haemato-oncology or acute care settings. This is a multi-professional event and we would welcome delegates who have a particular interest in CAR-T therapy or support patients who may undergo this treatment

This course is a fundamental level communication skills study day for:

• Any care professional who communicates with people affected by serious or life limiting illness/frailty, but not directly responsible for assessment & planning of care or treatment.
• Examples include: Health Care Assistants, Social Care Staff, Medical Secretaries, Ward Clerks, Support Staff, Porters

This 2 day online course provides an introduction to the nature of cancer and is primarily aimed at non-clinical staff. It is also suitable for health and social care practitioners and those wishing to increase their understanding of cancer

Day 1 - Online via MS Teams

Day 2 - Online via MS Teams

This event is open to all members of the multi-professional team who are interested in learning more about becoming an oncology advanced practitioner, working towards becoming this or are working as a qualified Advanced Practitioner/Consultant Practitioner. 

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.

This one day online course is aimed at any staff working in a health or social care setting who would like to increase their understanding of the human body and the impact of cancer on body systems. As it is an introductory level course it may not be suitable for Registered Health Professionals

This academic module is aimed at Registered Nurses working in a service that delivers Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) who are required to administer SACT as part of their role. There are theory and practice components to the course and the practice components are flexible depending on the level of SACT administration experience.

Those with appropriate background qualifications to study at degree level 6.

This module can be taken as a CPD, or as a ‘step-up’ approach to continuing with further modules at master’s level as part of the MSc Cancer Care programme pathway

NB. If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, planning a pregnancy or undergoing fertility treatment you may wish to consider whether it is an appropriate time for you to enrol on this module as the practice placement requires you to administer a range of SACT treatments including cytotoxic chemotherapy

This academic module is aimed at Registered Nurses working in a service that delivers Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) who are required to administer SACT as part of their role, wish to study at Masters level and have an interest in service development. There are theory and practice components to the course and the practice components are flexible depending on the level of SACT administration experience.

Those with appropriate background qualifications to study at master’s level 7.

This module can be taken as CPD or as part of the MSc Cancer Care programme pathway.

NB. If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, planning a pregnancy or undergoing fertility treatment you may wish to consider whether it is an appropriate time for you to enrol on this module as the practice placement requires you to administer a range of SACT treatments including cytotoxic chemotherapy

This course is a fundamental level communication skills study day for:

• Any care professional who communicates with people affected by serious or life limiting illness/frailty, but not directly responsible for assessment & planning of care or treatment.
• Examples include: Health Care Assistants, Social Care Staff, Medical Secretaries, Ward Clerks, Support Staff, Porters

This module is for those working in Nursing, Allied Professional or other Health and Social Care environments who provide, or support care for, those who are facing, or living with, a cancer diagnosis and treatment.

This module is for health care professionals, who provide, support or influence the care of those who are facing, or living with, a cancer diagnosis and treatment. . 

This 2 day online course provides an introduction to the nature of cancer and is primarily aimed at non-clinical staff. It is also suitable for health and social care practitioners and those wishing to increase their understanding of cancer

Day 1 - Online via MS Teams

Day 2 - Online via MS Teams

Join us for a collaborative, face-to-face event.

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.

This one day online course is for staff who have attended the Nature of Cancer Course or for any clinical staff working in a health or social care setting who have a basic understanding of cancer and its treatments but who would like to further develop their knowledge in this area

Day 1 - Online via MS Teams

This course is relevant for senior/experienced Health & Social Care Professionals, who wish to enhance personal knowledge, skills & confidence in patient, family or colleague conversations that are important or can often feel difficult, complex or highly emotive.