The live meeting at the ICC Belfast, has been awarded 12 CME points from the RCP. However, to gain your full 12 CME points you need to have attended 3 clinical sessions, therefore you will need to attend an additional ‘virtual’ clinical session to gain your certificate. Thank you for attending the meeting.

The NCRI are now launching the NCRI Bone Metastases Network. The network is for anyone who has an interest in bone metastases research and would like to hear about various opportunities related to the project. If you would like to join the NCRI network and /or complete the Bone Metastases survey please press the read more button below.

At present, the Department of Work and Pensions is in the middle of making legislative changes to the Special Rules eligibility criteria to allow fast-tracked access to financial support for those who may have 12 months or less to live, rather than an estimated 6 months, which has been the case up until now. These changes are occurring in a staggered fashion and DWP have created online resource for clinicians (nurses and doctors) which explains the current situation, introduces the new medical evidence form and provides all other info that might be required (www.gov.uk/dwp/special-rules)

Acute Oncology Nurse Sophie Needham was named Oncology Nurse of the Year 2022 by the British Journal of Oncology at their awards ceremony on the 25th of March this year.

UKAOS were very pleased to deliver our first one day MDT conference on the 27th of April 2022. Attendees really appreciated attending this face to face event, where along with hearing a number of excellent presentations, they had the opportunity to meet and network with colleagues from all nations of the UK. The MDT was well represented with people from a wide range of disciplines and specialty areas attending. The presenters have kindly agreed to share their slides with our members so that you can appreciate some of the amazing innovative work that is ongoing in the UK.

UKAOS 24 Hour Hotline/Helpline Provision - UKAOS and UKONS would like to map the provision of 24 Hour Helpline services within the UK. Cancer hotlines are a critical component of unplanned care and need to be robust, sustainable, and linked into the wider urgent care system. We are keen to map current services and define standards. Please click the read more button below to find more information and a link to our Advice Line questionnaire

The Ambulatory Pathway for Oncology Patients with Low Risk Febrile Neutropenia (LRFN). We are reviewing and updating the consensus pathway document for the ambulatory management of LRFN. We would like to receive any other LRFN pathway documents, guidelines, audit data, feedback that you have and are also recruiting to a review group. Please click the read more button below to find more information and complete our LRFN questionnaire.

We recognise that a huge amount of valuable information is presented at conferences as posters. We would like to help share this information with a wider audience. Please consider forwarding your posters to us for inclusion in our virtual exhibition hall. We need to know the authors names, the conference that the poster was presented at and have permission to upload from the lead author. We will need a PDF or link to the poster.

The UKAOS delivered an extremely well evaluated breakout session at the UK Oncology Forum 2021. The forum have kindly made this available for you to view in full on the spotlight page.

The acute oncology team at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust are working hard to improve the care of patients with suspected/and confirmed MSCC. Read more about their MSCC pathway and SPINE poster on the spotlight page and visit the poster exhibition hall on this website.