Navigating Advances: SACT National Networking Forum

Navigating Advances: SACT National Networking Forum
Video & slides 3.5 CPD Hours £99 + VAT
Video & Slides
Wed 6 Mar 2024 09:00-15:30

Designed for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) NHS professionals from across the country, this online national update is now available to purchase as a recording. Purchase the content from this topical study day and bring your knowledge up to speed with a series of easy to digest and informative presentations. Dedicate 3.5 CPD hours to this SACT National Networking Forum and feel ready to enhance your capacity, overcome your workforce challenges and support your patients' outcomes with the latest advances in treatment. 

3.5 hours Continuing Professional Development and networking: what you will learn

Benefit from an excellent opportunity to refresh your knowledge and engage with this outstanding balance of scientific, practical and multi-professional learning. This dedicated education tool will offer clear guidance on:

  • Shared protocols for TKIs with immunotherapy
  • Capacity challenges and managing growing numbers of patients
  • Building a business case for workforce development
  • Implications of exercise of cancer treatments and outcomes

Meet your education and training needs in your own time

Purchase the recording of this information packed course and take-away examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice, plus benefit from:

  • 3.5 CPD hours of presentation and speaker Q&A
  • Featuring engaging video and accompanying slides
  • Available at £299 + VAT for NHS and public sector professionals
  • Download and view in your own time
  • CPD Certificate issued to you after viewing the video


6 presentations | 3.5 CPD hours | Filmed on Wednesday 6th March 2023

Understanding targeted treatments
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Your guide to targeted treatments for cancer and the related genetics
  • Considering how targeted treatments work: what you need to know in your SACT team
  • Exploring what each diagnosis means and how treatment decisions are made
  • Implications for SACT teams: managing the side effects and supporting your patients
Philandra Costello and Donna Gillen, Genomics Lead Nurses CAS GMSA, Central & South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
Implementing effective protocols
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Implementing protocols for combining tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) with immunotherapy
  • Treating bowel cancer with immunotherapy: exploring the evidence
  • Navigating the implication of combined TKI with IO and understanding the risk of adverse effects
  • Real-world case studies explored
Dr Aspasia Soultati, Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Managing capacity
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Overcoming your capacity challenges: managing the growing numbers of patients in your unit
  • Understanding the contributors and exploring different ways of working
  • Balancing staffing and capacity challenges with growing patient numbers
  • Meeting your targets and providing people with treatments
Claire Marsh, SACT Project Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Wessex Cancer Alliance and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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Increasing capacity in your SACT service: building a business case for workforce development
  • Data analysis of capacity within your unit: how are you currently performing?
  • Increasing capacity without extra estate: recruitment, training and retention
  • Advanced Clinical Practitioners within SACT: exploring the benefits of the framework on capacity challenges
Sam Toland, Lead Chemotherapy Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Early Identification
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Enhancing education to keep up with developing drugs and their toxicities
  • Learning from experts within acute oncology to improve your SACT service delivery
  • Understanding and managing toxicities effectively to keep patients out of hospital
  • Measuring the outcomes: benefits on the service, patient outcomes and training levels
Emma Earnshaw, Macmillan Advanced Nurse Practitioner/NMP, Acute Oncology/SACT Trust Nurse Lead, Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust, UKONS AO MIG Chair and TVCA AOS CAG Nurse lead
Physical activity and cancer
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Exploring implications of prehab and exercise on treatment plans and outcomes for SACT patients
  • Exploring impact of prehab on treatment tolerability and clinical outcomes
  • Exercising during treatment: tolerability and side effects
  • Incorporating guidance and support into your SACT service: what you need to know
Dr Sam Orange, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Deputy Director of Research in the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, Newcastle University
Chair's closing remarks
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Dr Rosie Roberts

SACT Specialist Nurse
Velindre Cancer Centre, Velindre University NHS Trust
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Philandra Costello

Genomics Lead Nurse CAS GMSA
Central & South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
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Donna Gillen

Genomics Lead Nurse CAS GMSA
Central & South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
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Dr Aspasia Soultati

Medical Oncologist
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
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Claire Marsh

SACT Project Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist
Wessex Cancer Alliance and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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Sam Toland

Lead Chemotherapy Nurse
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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Emma Earnshaw

Macmillan Advanced Nurse Practitioner/NMP, Acute Oncology/SACT Trust Nurse Lead, UKONS AO MIG Chair and TVCA AOS CAG Nurse lead
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust
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Dr Sam Orange

Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Deputy Director of Research in the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences
Newcastle University

A busy and engaging online forum

This recording of this course is ideal for NHS professionals working in SACT MDTs. This includes but is not limited to:

  • SACT, Chemotherapy and Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Consultants
  • Pharmacists
  • Managers
  • Sisters and Matrons
  • Consultants

Past attendee feedback

Take a look at some of the comments from attendees who attended this event live on the day:
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"Very informative and relevant"
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
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“A really interesting forum and good to get lots of different opinions.”
- Ashford And St Peters NHS Foundation Trust
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"There was good emphasis on managing challenges of capacity, whilst also having some interesting additional talks, e.g. prehabilitation."
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Pricing & Viewing

  • £99+VAT for you to download and view in your own time
  • Click on 'Book Place' and complete your details

Purchase Fees

You will receive an instant payment option or invoice on completing the booking form. Once your payment has been made, you will be given the access details to view the presentations on-demand.

Certification of Attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

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