Update Your Clinical Practice and Improve Your Management of Patients
Specifically created for Advanced Clinical Nurse Practitioners in Acute Oncology and Immunotherapy
This online course offered attendees practical tools, crucial guidance, and transferable skills to ensure safe, competent, and timely remote triaging of patients. Through interactive and hands-on activities, participants gained confidence, mastered new techniques, and left ready to apply their skills directly within their triage process.
This event was exclusively for Trusts within Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance.
Case-study based learning
A Unique Opportunity for Expert Guidance and Peer Support
This online course provided attendees with practical, structured, and tested guidance to enhance the management of patients accessing their assessment hotlines. Participants had the opportunity to refocus on key skills, including:
- Becoming a “telephone triage detective”
- Navigating the unknown during virtual consultations
- Developing effective assessment tools
- Solidifying triage pathways
- Ensuring sustained competency
- Exploring effective teamworking in triage
Key benefits of attending
Attendees took away useful techniques and new processes to develop their nurse-led telephone assessment.
We know that your training time is limited: this essential course provided:
- Evidenced based examples and referrals: providing appropriate triage, referral and sign posting
- Interactive presentations: formalise your triage hotline and ensure safe, competent assessment
- Closed room discussions: benchmark and engage with your fellow attendees
- Agreed action plan: leave the forum with the confidence to make changes
Exclusive opportunity
This event was free to attend for Trusts within Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance
Learning & development
Oncology National Networking Forums are pleased to be featured as part of the ACCEND Framework
The Greater Manchester ePortfolio platform is available via the Greater Manchester Cancer Academy and supports professional development in cancer care.
This forum and all of our events are mapped to the ACCEND Framework and can be recorded in the ACCEND Greater Manchester ePortfolio to help you evidence your learning, reflections and competencies.
To find out more, click on the ACCEND tab.
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Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms
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| 9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks
Ali Hodge, Nurse Consultant Immunotherapy and Acute Oncology and Rebecca Davies, Cancer Matron, SACT Unit, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
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| 9:40 |
How to become a telephone triage detective
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| 10:30 |
Interactive discussion: Navigating the unknown during your virtual triage consultation
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| 10:50 |
Screen break
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| 11:00 |
Interactive discussion feedback: Navigating the unknown during your virtual triage consultation
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| 11:10 |
Developing your assessment tools and solidifying your triage pathway
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| 12:00 |
Interactive action planning: Assess and enhance your current assessment tool
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| 12:30 |
Morning question and answer session
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| 12:45 |
Lunch break
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| 1:30 |
Continue your teams’ competencies and education
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| 1:45 |
Effective team working in triage
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| 2:20 |
Screen break
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| 2:30 |
Interactive task: Reflecting on your existing communication skills
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| 3:20 |
Question and answer session
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| 3:30 |
Chair’s closing remarks and close of course
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With thanks to the expert course leaders
This unique training shared practical tools driven by experience and will be brought to life by Ali Hodge. Ali has recently been described as “extremely helpful with her current empathy and understanding of the complexities surrounding triage”. Others who have benefited from her online training wrote; “I really liked Ali's 'real-world' stance on the challenges we all face” and “I love that Ali was so animated, passionate and realistic about what is achievable with current NHS resources”. Ali was joined by Rebecca Davies, Cancer Matron, SACT Unit, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
Ali Hodge
Nurse Consultant Immunotherapy and Acute Oncology
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Rebecca Davies
Cancer Matron, SACT Unit
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Who came?
This course was designed to meet the needs of all experience levels. Specifically created for Clinical Nurse Practitioners in NHS Acute Oncology and Immunotherapy teams.
This event was exclusively available for Trusts within Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance, which includes:
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Past attendee feedback
Our focused online forums have received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!
About the ACCEND Framework
The ACCEND Framework is designed to enhance cancer care by providing a structured approach to education and professional development for healthcare professionals.
- It defines the essential Cancer Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) and offers a tailored educational structure to support progression at every stage of a cancer care career.
- Launched in January 2023, the framework aims to transform career pathways and improve training and development opportunities across the cancer workforce.
- It provides access to the education and training needed to meet role-specific competencies and includes dedicated resources for nurses, allied health professionals and those in cancer-related support roles.
- The ACCEND Framework delivers a nationally agreed career and education structure underpinned by clearly defined capabilities in practice.
Map your learning
All Oncology National Networking Forum courses listed on the Greater Manchester Cancer Academy’s ACCEND ePortfolio are fully aligned with the ACCEND Framework.
You can easily log your attendance and map your learning to the Cancer Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) through the ACCEND ePortfolio.
To do this:
- Register and log in to the ePortfolio
- Click ‘Add Entry’
- Select 'Choose an item from the library'
- Change the provider to Oncology National Networking Forums
- Choose the relevant event you have attended (or plan to attend)
This tool offers a central space to track your professional development, reflections and achievements - supporting your ongoing career in cancer care.
Click here to access the ePortfolio
