This is a very exciting PhD opportunity to explore the acute oncology pathway to improve support for patients. This novel PhD aims to understand what it is like to experience the acute oncology pathway, for patients, acute oncology staff and other Health Care Professionals (HCPs) who interact with acute oncology patients,  identifying unmet patient needs, understanding Health Care Professionals views and experiences of service delivery, and exploring where improvements could be made. This is an incredibly exciting and important area of research, and would be suited a researcher with experience of cancer, health care or health services research or a health care professional with research experience

UKAOS is pleased to announce their Annual Conference will be held as a face-to-face meeting in Birmingham on Friday 27th September 2024. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Transforming Acute Oncology - Everyone’s Business’.

The UK Sepsis Trust are leading a project with 52 North Health, focused on the assessment and prioritisation of patients at risk of neutropenic sepsis. As a member of our organisation, you have been identified as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in this field and are invited to participate in the project.

We are very pleased to announce that we are holding our inaugural annual conference on the 27th of September 2024 in Birmingham.

UKAOS held our first annual general meeting on the 6th of December 2023

We are looking for New Trustees and also Programme Board Members to help us continue the growth and development of the Society. The UKAOS is keen to hear from current or new members who would be interested in working more closely with UKAOS on developing the 5 year strategy and delivering  the current work programme. Please follow the read more link below for further information.

Authors - Sanat Kulkarni, Thomas Knight, Tim Cooksley, Ernie Marshall, Neil Patel, Radha Selvaratnam and Catherine Atkin Acute oncology services (AOS) manage acute cancer-related presentations alongside acute medical teams. This study assessed AOS provision against national peer review measures and the burden of acute cancer-related admissions.

Acute oncology services (AOS) manage acute cancer-related presentations alongside acute medical teams. This study assessed AOS provision against national peer review measures and the burden of acute cancer-related admissions.

The UKAOS Data Quality and Management Group have worked with the NDRS (digital.nhs.uk) team to develop the Cancer Outcomes and Services Data (COSD). Over the last 10 years there has been ongoing work to produce a secure platform to house AO data in England. This has resulted in a dashboard that will contain live Acute Oncology Data.

The CUPISCO study a phase II international study comparing the efficacy and safety of targeted therapy or cancer immunotherapy guided by genomic profiling versus platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with CUP(carcinoma of unknown primary) reported at ESMO in October 23.