Spotlight - SPINE - MSCC Education and Training - UKONS 2021 1st Prize.
2026 - Please note that the SPINE poster has now been updated to align with the latest NICE MSCC guidance
The acute Oncology Team at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust have developed and implemented an educational programme and designed a really helpful poster "SPINE" which has been approved and adopted by the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance - Awarded first prize at UKONS Conference 2021
They have implemented an MSCC educational programme and are happy to share the tools they have developed:
- Slide sets to support training - Medical - CNS
- A mnemonic tool to prompt practitioners of the management of suspected MSCC in the form of a really helpful poster "SPINE"
- Audit - aims and objectives:
- To identify the number of patients attending with suspected or confirmed MSCC
- To identify how many patients were known to have a cancer diagnosis
- To identify if these patients received the care as per NICE Guidance for suspected/confirmed MSCC
- To identify how many patients were confirmed MSCC -and out of those how many received treatment from a tertiary centre
- To highlight any specific areas that may need further education/support from the Acute Oncology Team