Future Proofing your Acute Oncology Service

Future Proofing your Acute Oncology Service
4 CPD Hours £299+VAT
Online Course, 4 CPD hours
Tue 30 Sep 2025 09:00-15:50

Essential training to achieve NHS long term goals: lead your acute oncology team to enhanced capacity and future-ready care

Join Consultant Medical Oncologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Acute Oncology Service Managers, and Haematologists from across the country for a dynamic and practical online study day. This is a valuable opportunity to gain insights, share best practices, and future-proof your acute oncology service.

Elevate and evolve your service to expand capacity and enhance patient outcomes

Don’t miss out: this exceptional educational workshop will enable you to elevate your service by expanding your capacity and enhancing patient outcomes. Learn how to boost efficiency, meet NICE guidelines, and implement sustainable, patient-focused improvements in your acute oncology care.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to focus on strengthening and future-proofing your service

This study day will provide you with real-world insights, practical tools, and clear strategies to tackle capacity challenges and align with the NHS Long-Term Plan through:

  1. Practical guidance on establishing and optimising Non-Specific Symptoms (NSS) pathways
  2. Learning how to secure investment for MSCC roles using national guidelines and clinical need
  3. Improving management of treatment toxicities in patients receiving combination therapies
  4. Exploring how to implement the Nervecentre EPR system is being used to improve care coordination

Developed with convenience in mind: join this NHS online course remotely

Come away with the key skills to successfully future proof your Acute Oncology Service through:

  • Evidence-based tools aligned with national guidance
  • Expert-led presentations with live Q&A
  • Peer-to-peer interactive discussions
  • Case study examples of real-worked solutions

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and course leader’s opening remarks
Gemma Mullins, Lead Acute Oncology CNS, Nottingham Teaching University NHS Foundation Trust
Importance of implementing a Non-Specific Symptoms Pathway
9:40
Case study: Establishing a Non-Specific Symptoms Pathway
  • Steps to design, build and implement an effective NSS pathway
  • Securing stakeholder engagement and multi-disciplinary buy-in
  • Maximising efficiency and improving patient outcomes through pathway optimisation
10:20
Questions and answers with Gemma Mullins
10:30
Interactive discussion: Exploring your pathways to increase efficiency
  • Share your current pathway models- what challenges are you facing and what’s working well?
  • How do patients currently access treatment via non-specific pathways referrals?
11:00
Screen break
Building a business case for a MSCC Coordinator
11:10
How to produce a business care for a MSCC Coordinator
  • Understanding the critical role and impact of a MSCC Coordinator within oncology services
  • Building a compelling, evidence-based business case using NICE guidance and national recommendations
  • Demonstrating clinical need, service improvement, and financial value to support investment
11:50
Questions and answers with Gemma Mullins
12:00
Interactive discussion: Steroid use in suspected MSCC
  • What is the current process for recognising and initiating steroid treatment in suspected MSCC cases?
  • What dose and type of steroid do you use for MSCC patients, and is this standardised in your service?
12:30
Networking lunch
Managing toxicities
1:00
Case study: Treating adverse effects from Immunotherapies in combination with chemotherapy
  • Exploring complications arising from combination treatment and their impact on patient care
  • Identifying, mapping, and managing overlapping toxicities
  • Strategies for distinguishing which agent is responsible for specific side effects
1:40
Questions and answers with Gemma Mullins
1:50
Interactive discussion: Managing toxicities in combined immunotherapy and chemotherapy
  • What complications have you encountered when treating patients on combination chemo-immunotherapy?
  • Share the strategies or tools you use to determine whether chemotherapy or immunotherapy- is causing specific side effects?
2:20
Screen break
Driving Digital Transformation
2:30
Using Nervecentre EPR to deliver more coordinated care closer to home
  • Expanding capacity and enhancing patient flow through virtual wards
  • Leveraging Nervecentre EPR to streamline clinical processes and reduce unnecessary admissions
  • Improving real-time decision-making, communication and continuity of care across teams
3:10
Final questions and answers with Gemma Mullins
3:20
Interactive discussion: Reflection and action planning
  • What key insights or strategies from today will you take back to your service?
  • What are your next steps to future-proof and advance your acute oncology pathway?
3:50
Close of day

Sharing in first-hand experience

Gemma Mullins is an experienced speaker, Nurse Educator and Clinical Nurse Specialist who has worked in Acute Oncology for over eight years. Known for her engaging and practical teaching style, she has delivered education on NSS pathways, authored multiple business cases and played a key role in developing oncology services. At this interactive workshop, you will benefit first-hand from her extensive experience in oncology nursing and service development.

Gemma Mullins

Lead Acute Oncology CNS
Nottingham Teaching University NHS Foundation Trust

Pricing Structure

  • £299+VAT - one NHS or Public Sector place
  • 4 for 3! Bring your team and get 4 places for the price of 3

Interested in more than one event?

You can also benefit from NHS group discounts when booking across two or more courses. This can be for a single person, or for a group booking. Click here to get in touch via email. 

Associations and networks

If you belong to an alliance, association or network please email Nichola Cadwallader to see how we can work together on a mutually beneficial basis. 

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding.

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team.

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavor to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavor to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

If you’re striving to strengthen your acute oncology pathway and deliver high quality care that meets national expectations, this is a must attend event for:

  • Consultant Medical Oncologists
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists and Advanced Clinical Practitioners 
  • Acute Oncology Service Mangers
  • Haematologists and Haemato-Oncologists

Past attendee feedback

Over the past two years, SBK Healthcare has delivered focused online oncology training and education forums which have received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!

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"Great and engaging"
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, April 2025
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"Was unsure how online would work but worked really well and I found not having to travel beneficial. The event leader led the day really well and encouraged interaction and conversation"
- Boosting Capacity in your Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) Service, June 2024
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"Extremely informative, some good ideas to take forward into our area"
- Providing Personalised Care and Support Planning, November 2023
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"Very informative, well run, good to get other experiences and practices from other trusts"
- Clinical Research Leadership and Management, May 2024
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"Really enjoyed the course, lots of ideas and getting things into action"
- How to Build a Successful NHS Business Case, January 2024
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"Informative, good to know that we are experiencing similar difficulties and that it is not just 'us'"
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, April 2025

Why sponsor an Oncology National Networking Forum?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing oncology forums offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Vanessa Pearce 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk