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Spotlight - SPINE - MSCC Education and Training - UKONS 2021 1st Prize.

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

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Spotlight - SPINE - MSCC Education and Training - UKONS 2021 1st Prize.

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.