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UKAOS trustee and board member elected as clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians

Congratulations to Dr Hilary Williams UKAOS trustee and board member has been elected as clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians

Nursing Subgroup Community Meeting

Save the date for the quarterly nursing subgroup community meeting! - 29th April 10-11:30

UKAOS Learning Hour - 9th of April 12:15 to 13:00 - MUO not CUP with Alison Taylor, UKAOS MUO group lead.

Listen again to Alison Taylor talk about her research and development programme for MUO and CUP services/pathways. She will talk about definitions and the role of the acute oncology team in the management of patients presenting with a new cancer diagnosis in the emergency setting. Pour yourself a cup of tea, bring your sandwiches and join us to listen and learn.

UKAOS Board member running for Clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

Dr Hilary Williams is a founder board member of the UKAOS and a real champion for Acute Oncology Wales. She has played a pivotal role in the development of acute oncology services in Wales and in the UK as a whole. Hilary believes that "acute cancer care is everyone's business" and as Clinical Vice President of the RCP she would work collaboratively to with colleagues to support our patients and health care teams in the delivery of excellent acute cancer care.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the 2025 UK Oncology Forum

The forum will held at Harrogate Convention Centre on Thursday 12th & Friday 13th June 2025. The UKOF are delighted that they can continue to keep this high- level educational meeting – completely FREE of charge to all UK Cancer NHS healthcare professionals, with NO registration fee.

National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Day 14th March 2025

UKAOS are proud to support National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day. This is a social media awareness day that has been developed to highlight and celebrate the hugely important role that the cancer nursing workforce provides in support of patients and UK-wide health systems on a daily basis.

Mixed methods scoping review of patients’ experiences of urgent and emergency cancer care

UKAOS are pleased to report that the University of Southampton PREMAC study group have published their scoping review of patients’ experiences of urgent and emergency cancer care. Mixed methods scoping review of patients’ experiences of urgent and emergency cancer care published in Supportive Care in Cancer. We are very supportive of this study and hope that it will help lead to the development of Patient-reported experience measures (PREM) for Acute Oncology.

Acute Oncology job plan for consultant oncologists

A UK Acute Oncology Society (UKAOS) consultant subgroup has developed a generic AO job plan template to support job planning and to help trusts developing new AO posts. A draft document has now been approved by the UKAOS and ACP, and is undergoing final consultation at the RCR, before final approval and wider dissemination.

The UK Acute Oncology Society (UKAOS) Annual General Meeting - 12th March 2025

The second UKAOS Annual General Meeting will be held at 16:00-17:00 on Wednesday 12th March 2025. We will be sharing our progress and presenting our plans for 2025 Registered members of the society are very welcome to join us via a TEAMS link.

The UK Acute Oncology Society (UKAOS) Malignancy of unknown origin (MUO) subgroup - need your help !

The UK Acute Oncology Society (UKAOS) Malignancy of unknown origin (MUO) subgroup are scoping how patients with MUO start their clinical journey from acute presentation to definitive management.

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act as an expert resource - sharing information and pathways and working with National Health Departments and related organisations

act (with other recognised organisations) to ensure patient safety and wellbeing is at the centre of all acute cancer care

work with relevant organisations to develop research opportunities

collaborate with stakeholder groups to develop training resources for professionals working in acute oncology

deliver an annual meeting on acute oncology.

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If you are visiting our site and find it helpful then please join us and register,membership is free of charge.

We would like to build our membership register so that we can work with you to help improve and develop acute oncology in the UK.

Membership is free and as a member you will have early information about events and news.

If you would like to share good practice ,ask a question or become more involved in running the society then please follow this link to contact us.

We have link members with associated national groups to ensure collaboration and communication.

We have an active project management group (PMG) that is supporting our website and working on national projects as UKAOS links.

We have developed our subgroup teams who are leading specific workstreams and involving members.

We have also been supporting international colleagues wish to develop AO services.

We are planning for the future and will be launching our 5 year Strategy Document in 2025

We will be leading the report into the provision of 24-Hour Hotline Services within the UK

We are commencing a collaborative work programme around the management of Neutropenic Sepsis

We are planning regular an online education hour

Please follow this link to our exhibtion hall if you would like to have a look at some of the excellent posters that were presented at our conference

If you would like to share your poster with our members please contact us at this link

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The UK Acute Oncology Society (UKAOS) is most grateful to Exact Sciences and Pfizer for their joint funding support of the Society in its inaugural year; the support from Pfizer was in the form of an unrestricted educational grant. The companies have had no influence on the set up of UKAOS.