Previous Webinars
Primary Care Education | Rural Cancer Inequalities and the Role of GP/Patient Relationships
Christina Dobson from Newcastle University presented the findings of research undertaken with patients in rural Yorkshire, which utilised surveys and interviews to examine barriers to early presentation with symptoms of possible colorectal cancer. The research found a range of factors that influenced willingness to consult, including the impact of self-employment and cultures of stoicism on consultation behaviours. The implications of these findings on cancer pathways and possible strategies to overcome the barriers that rural patients face when experiencing symptoms was discussed.
Luke Sayers (Whitley Bay Health Centre) and Tom Kennedy (NENC ICB) then discussed continuity of care in the context of cancer – diagnosis, cancer care review and ongoing input, outlined steps we can all easily take to promote continuity in our practices and updated on the work currently going on in the region promoting continuity of care. (Recorded December 2024)
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Speaker Bio – Christina Dobson
Lunch and Learn | Radiotherapy Pre-Treatment, Planning and Treatment
In this session Joanna Reynolds, Therapeutic Radiographer, Rosie Robinson, Therapeutic Radiographer and Nick Willis, Dosimetrist from James Cook University Hospital, discuss the importance of pre-treatment imaging and immobilisation, and how complex individual patient treatment plans are developed to target high doses of radiation to the tumour and avoid healthy tissue. (Recorded November 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Introduction to Radiotherapy
In this session, Rosie Robinson, Therapeutic Radiographer and Joe Whitbourn, Clinical Scientist at James Cook University Hospital along with Joanne Small, Therapeutic Radiographer at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, tell us how radiotherapy works, along with the different treatment modalities and intent, and when and why certain treatments are delivered. (Recorded October 2024)
Primary Care Education | Head and Neck Cancers
Mr Shane Lester, Head and Neck Clinical Lead with the NCA and ENT Consultant at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks through the symptoms and key points of head and neck cancers to be aware of in primary care. The session covers when to seek further advice and refer a patient and the difference that early stage detection makes to outcomes, with a focus on health inequalities. (Recorded October 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Immunotherapy for Cancer: Focus on Skin and Hormonal Side Effects
In this session Dr Abigail Gault, from the Northern Centre for Cancer Care at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, takes a deep dive into the features of immune related adverse events affecting the skin and endocrine system, including thyroid and adrenal gland disruption. We learn about the changes in the immune system when these events happen and discuss current treatments & those under investigation through case studies. The webinar also covers the long term implications these side effects may have. (Recorded September 2024)
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Speaker Bio – Dr Abigail Gault
Primary Care Education | Cancer and the Menopause
Many patients experience menopausal symptoms during or after cancer treatment. Just because they have, or have had cancer, does not mean they need to put up with these symptoms.
In this session Dr Charlotte Gooding covers how to manage menopausal symptoms, giving Health Care Professionals the tools and resources to support your patients, as well as an overview of ongoing work and how to get involved. (Recorded September 2024)
Speaker Bio – Dr Charlotte Gooding
Lunch and Learn | The Importance of Welfare Benefits Advice to People Living with Cancer
4 in 5 people living with cancer are, on average, up to £891 a month worse off because of their illness. Stark statistics show that up to 50% of patients are not aware of how to get advice to identify benefits and support that they may be entitled to.
Macmillan envisage a world where every person affected by cancer is able to access free, impartial advice and guidance in relation to their finances to work in harmony alongside the medical pathway.
Focusing on the importance of welfare benefits advice to people living with cancer, Lucy Mayou and Richard Hunt, Welfare Benefits Development Managers at Macmillan Cancer Support explored the reasons why benefits advice is so important as well as highlighting the role of the benefits adviser, the outcomes that they can achieve for patients and ways to connect with local benefit services. (Recorded September 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Inherited Breast Cancer
In this session Dr Richard Martin, Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Newcastle; and Helen Bethell, Genetic Counsellor for the NEY GMS covered what inherited breast cancer is and why is it important, how it can affect treatment and future management options, how patients are advised as to whether they should or shouldn’t have testing and what the health and social implications are to being tested (Recorded September 2024)
Lunch and Learn | Immunotherapy for Cancer: Focus on Gastrointestinal Side Effects
In this session Dr Abigail Gault, from the Northern Centre for Cancer Care at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, takes a deep dive into the features of gastrointestinal immune related adverse events including colitis and hepatitis. We learn about the changes in the immune system when these events happen, current treatments available and those under investigation through case studies. (Recorded August 2024)
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Speaker bio – Dr Abigail Gault
Lunch and Learn | Cancer and the Menopause
Many patients experience menopausal symptoms during or after cancer treatment. Just because they have, or have had cancer, does not mean they need to put up with these symptoms. In this session Dr Charlotte Gooding covers how to manage menopausal symptoms, giving Health Care Professionals the tools and resources to support your patients. (Recorded July 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Introduction to Immunotherapy
Checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) immunotherapies are a novel form of treatment for cancer. In this session Dr Abigail Gault, from the Northern Centre for Cancer Care at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, talks us through the background behind these drugs, how they work, why we use them, and newer treatments that are in development. The webinar also covers the side effects patients may experience and how to manage these. (Recorded June 2024)
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Speaker Bio – Dr Abigail Gault
The Ugly Duckling, a Beginners Guide to Skin Cancer
Dr Tim Cunliffe, Joint Lead for Skin Cancer & Skin Surgery, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks through a presentation designed to give health professionals and non-health professionals, who regularly come into contact with the skin, the confidence to recognise potentially cancerous lesions and what course of action to take. (Recorded June 2024)
Lunch and Learn | Familial Cancer: Primary Care Management
‘There is cancer in my family, what does this mean for me?’
A GP’s guide to dealing with familial cancer referrals, with a focus on clinical management issues relevant to Primary Care. It is common for GPs to encounter patients who are concerned about a family history of cancer in our clinical practice. Jude Hayward (GP/GPwSI in Clinical Genetics) works within both Primary Care and in the field of Cancer Genetics. In this webinar she discusses all you need to know to manage patients with a family history of cancer, including an overview of referral criteria and primary care management issues such as HRT and contraception. (Recorded June 2024)
PCN DES 24/25: Primary Care – Early Diagnosis Share and Learn
The session focused on the cancer elements of the PCN DES, to support PCNs in their endeavours to improve early cancer diagnosis and patient outcomes, providing an overview of the requirements and key actions. Practical examples of quality improvement work of several PCNs in the region were showcased, to help generate ongoing ideas for practice. (Recorded June 2024)
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NCA Primary Care Education | Breast Pain Pathway
Mr Matei Dordea, Breast Clinical Lead with the NCA and Consultant Breast Surgeon at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust talks through the relatively new Breast Pain Pathway as it becomes established in all trusts across the North East and North Cumbria, looking at the referral process for primary care, what patients can expect when they attend their appointment and how this will impact on Faster Diagnosis. (Recorded May 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Reasonable Adjustments
Julie Tucker, Project Manager for North East & Cumbria Learning Disability Network, explains reasonable adjustments and how they benefit the patient and clinician as part of the cancer pathway as well as giving an overview of the National reasonable adjustments digital flag. (Recorded April 2024)
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Lunch and Learn | Relevance of HRR Alteration in Prostate Cancer – from Prognosis to Treatment
Dr Pasquale Rescigno, Senior Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University and Senior Researcher at Candiolo Cancer Institute, Turin., discusses the clinical relevance of HR alterations, with a focus on the clinical, diagnostic and familiar impact of BRCA1/2 alterations. (Recorded April 2024)
NCA Primary Care Education | Targeted Lung Health Checks
Dr Liz Fuller, Targeted Lung Health Check and Lung Cancer Case Finding Clinical Lead (NCA) and Respiratory Consultant (NUTH) explains the detail behind targeted lung health checks and the work primary care can undertake now throughout the pilot stages in readiness for TLHC becoming the next national screening programme. (Recorded March 2024)
NCA Primary Care Education | Health Inequalities in Cancer
Dr Ruth Sharrock, Respiratory Consultant (QEH), Clinical Lead for Tobacco (NENC ICB), Lung and Health Inequalities Lead (NCA) discusses the health inequalities experienced by patients in terms of accessing and receiving cancer treatment and work that can be done to help overcome this. (Recorded March 2024)
Lunch and Learn | Circulating Tumour DNA (ctDNA) Testing
Professor Alastair Greystoke, Honorary Medical Oncologist and North East & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service’s Clinical Director (Cancer), discusses the progress that has been made in adopting circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) testing across the NHS. (Recorded February 2024)
NCA Primary Care Education | The Role of the Cancer Care Coordinator
Dr Hassan Tahir, Primary Care Lead for Personalised Care with the Northern Cancer Alliance, discusses the importance of the Cancer Care Coordinator role in terms of both primary care and patient experience. (Recorded January 2024)
NCA Primary Care Education | Smoking and Vaping
Dr Ruth Sharrock, Respiratory Consultant (QEH), Clinical Lead for Tobacco (NENC ICB), Lung and Health Inequalities Lead (NCA) discusses the importance of smoking cessation and the use of vapes in terms of both primary and secondary care. (Recorded January 2024)
NCA Primary Care Education | Personalised Care
Dr Hassan Tahir, Primary Care Lead for Personalised Care with the NCA, highlights the need for personalised care, what it entails, where it sits within primary care and how it can enhance both patient experience and outcome. (Recorded March 2024)
Lunch and Learn | Lynch Syndrome and Genomics
Professor Sir John Burn, discusses his experiences – and the progress has been made – over 30 years of research into Lynch syndrome. Lynch syndrome is a rare condition that can run in families and lead to a higher risk of developing certain cancers such as bowel, womb (endometrium), stomach and pancreatic. An estimated 200,000 people in the UK have Lynch syndrome, but only 5 per cent have been tested and diagnosed. (Recorded March 2024)
Lunch and Learn | Ethical Issues in Mainstream Cancer Genomics
As genomic medicine becomes increasingly part of mainstream practice, patients, families and health professionals find themselves dealing with a number of potential ethical dilemmas. The Northern Cancer Alliance and North East & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service provide discussion and reflection on some of these ethical issues faced by those both providing and receiving treatment in mainstream cancer genomics. (Recorded December 2023)
NCA Primary Care Education | Differentiating Benign from Malignant Skin Lesions in Primary Care
The presentation by Dr Tim Cunliffe, Joint lead for Skin Cancer & Skin Surgery, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is designed to give clinicians confidence in recognising benign skin lesions to reduce unnecessary referrals. Dr Cunliffe also shares ‘tips and tricks’ that are helpful in the use of a dermatoscope and discusses the tools and resources available on the Primary Care Dermatology Society (PCDS) website.(Recorded November 2023)
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Lunch and Learn | The Genomics of Cancer – a Beginners Guide
Dr Jackie Cook, Consultant Geneticist and Clinical Director of the North East & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service talks about the specialist and complex topic of Genomics, the study of the genes in our DNA. The application of genomic technologies has the potential to enable quicker diagnosis for patients with a rare disease, match people to the most effective medication and interventions and to increase the number of people surviving cancer each year.(Recorded October 2023)
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust – Cancer Information Hub
Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse Kelly Craggs, takes us on a tour of the Cancer Information Hub and explains how best to present it to patients, their families and carers following a cancer diagnosis to enable them to access support throughout their treatment and care.(Recorded April 2023)
Lunch and Learn | Aspirant Cancer Career Education and Development (ACCEND) Framework
Nicky Lambert, Clinical Lead for Nursing and Karen Stenlund, Workforce Lead, Northern Cancer Alliance give an overview of the purpose and aims of the ACCEND framework. (Recorded March 2023)
PCN Clinical Decision Support Tools Introduction
Dr Shaun Lackey and the team from Ardens provide an overview of two free online Cancer Decision Support tools – Q Cancer and Cancer Maps – for EMIS and SystmOne users. More information available here (Recorded March 2023)
PCN Clinical Decision Support Tools for EMIS Users
Hazel Quick from Ardens explains more about the use of free clinical decision support tools for cancer, Qcancer and Cancer Maps for EMIS users. More information available here (Recorded March 2023)
PCN Clinical Decision Support Tools for SystmOne Users
Mark Keith from Ardens explains more about the use of free clinical decision support tools for cancer, Qcancer and Cancer Maps for SystmOne users. More information available here (Recorded March 2023)