The Royal College of Physicians and The Society of Acute Medicine have published an updated Acute care toolkit 7. Many patients with known and new cancer diagnoses are admitted to and cared for on acute medical units (AMUs). The Acute Care Toolkit aim to support acute and general medical clinicians caring for patients with cancer who have been admitted to acute care.

New on the Health Innovation North West Coast Podcast – hear about transformation of urgent care for cancer patients in Cheshire and Merseyside. Health leaders have collaborated to create pathways and processes which ensure that cancer patients can avoid visits to A&E and potentially long stays in hospital awaiting decisions and treatment. Caroline Kenyon is in conversation with Dr Ernie Marshall, Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust; Dr Ragit Varia, Acute Medical Lead for the urgent cancer care programme based at Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust; and Mel Warwick, Programme Lead.

I am very pleased to announce that the UKAOS has a new secretariat provider in place called Media1 Productions. With this change in secretariat, we are upgrading our membership system with how we store your data and therefore we need all our members old and new to re-register allowing us to keep in contact with you all. The annual membership will continue to be FREE OF CHARGE for the upcoming membership year. If you do not renew your UKAOS membership, you will no longer receive any UKAOS related information and therefore not be considered a UKAOS member.

UKAO Society and the Association of Cancer Physicians are pleased to invite you to multi-professional Acute Oncology day in Leeds. This meeting brings together a panel of multidisciplinary cancer experts to share experiences and to address some of the dilemmas faced by everyone working in Acute Oncology. Date : Friday 10th November 2023 Venue: Hilton Leeds City Hotel, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4BX

We’re pleased to announce that the Level 1 Acute Oncology e-learning with competence passport is now live on the Macmillan learning hub. This online resource has been developed as part of the National AO Passport Project with UKONS & UKAOS: CASCADE (Co-design of Acute oncology Standardised Competence Assessment Documents and their Evaluation). To support learners at ‘Core’ level achieve AO competencies we have collaborated with Macmillan to combine the existing online education with the newly developed Level 1 Passport questions to promote the development of a knowledgeable, skilled, and competent workforce that treats and cares for people with an acute oncology indication.

UKAOS has supported UKONS in the review of the Acute Oncology Initial Management Guidelines. Members of the Society of Acute Medicine have taken part in this review and we thank them for their expertise.

This draft guideline and its supporting evidence consultation has now been extended to Wednesday 19 April 2023. Please follow the links and take a look

This report launched in January by the RCP in Wales calls for investment in emergency cancer care at the front door.

The first phase of the National AO Competence Assessment Passport Project with UKONS and UKAOS was recently completed. Progress to date has been collated into a report available below. A summary of the project was also submitted to the UKONS Conference in Belfast, November 2022, which can be viewed in Research Posters: UK Acute Oncology Society