Immuno-Oncology Service Delivery: Capacity Management

Immuno-Oncology Service Delivery: Capacity Management
5 CPD Hours From £199+VAT
Hilton Leeds City, 5 CPD hours
Fri 11 Jul 2025 08:30-16:55

With rising demand from new treatments, explore strategies for service development and capacity management

This in-person forum brings together healthcare professionals in Immuno-Oncology and Acute Oncology to explore important developments in service delivery and capacity management. Secure your place now to learn from leading clinicians, connect with peers, and be inspired to optimise, develop and expand your immunotherapy team through focused, expert-led sessions.

Following the huge success of our previous collaborative forum with the IOCN in Coventry in October 2024. We are thrilled to be working with them again to deliver this next meeting. 

With thanks to our collaborator and supporter: 

5 hours Continuing Professional Development and networking: what you will learn

Benefit from a programme packed with presentations from enthusiastic speakers providing key advice that will improve your practice. Benefit from unique, dedicated discussion time to discover what other teams are doing and learn from each other. 

Key IO updates: Impact of new immunotherapies on service delivery and capacity management

Crucial content: your core concerns tackled:

  • Service and capacity: strategies to improve and expand IO services
  • Delivery approach: effective immunotherapy delivery and support
  • Team development: aligning workforce and building strong MDTs
  • Training: standardising training to manage treatment complexities
  • Expansion and funding: growing services and accessing necessary resources

Why should you attend?

This dedicated training day will arm you with the tools to deliver an effective and optimised service:

  • Building networks: gain access to Immuno-Oncology professionals and thought leaders to build a community of peers for support, advice and guidance
  • Professional learning: develop your understanding by examining and overcoming key issues that underpin evolving IO services 
  • Service development: take one day out at this dedicated forum to identify innovative approaches to develop your service and increase your capacity

With thanks to our partner

This forum has been created in collaboration with and through support from IOCN


Invitation to sponsor

SBK Healthcare National Forums are designed to enable Immuno-Oncology providers to support healthcare professionals. If you would like to sponsor this forum, please email Vanessa Pearce or call Vanessa on 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available in the full sponsorship package.

8:30
Registration and networking
9:00
Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Dr Anna Olsson-Brown, Consultant in Medical Oncology and Clinical Director for Clinical Cancer Care, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
National approach to IO capacity
9:10
Key developments: Managing increasing capacity and more complex immunotherapies
  • Exploring the key IO updates and their implications for service delivery and capacity
  • Navigating the complexities of the latest immunotherapies: what you need to know and how it will impact on your service
9:40
Implementing a comprehensive delivery and support approach to immunotherapies
  • Understanding how to provide a delivery and support approach for IO
  • Bringing in your wider MDT to provide a holistic and wide-reaching approach
  • Implications of a delivery and support approach for your IO service capacity
10:10
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:20
Sponsored presentation opportunity
If you are interested in sponsoring and giving this presentation, please contact vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk
10:35
Interactive discussion: Improving capacity in your IO service
  • What are your current capacity challenges? What are the main causes?
  • How are you working to overcome them? What have you implemented so far?
  • What new ways of working have you or will you implement?
10:55
Networking break
11:15
Utilising subcutaneous delivery of immunotherapy to improve capacity in your service
  • Utilising subcutaneous immunotherapy delivery: considerations for your team and your patients
  • Understanding the impact on capacity: how can it help?
  • Exploring the realities and practicalities: what you need to know to tackle the challenges and obstacles
Workforce development
11:45
Establishing your Immuno-Oncology team: meeting workforce and capacity challenges
  • Considerations for team development: how to align your workforce plans with developments in IO
  • Building and establishing an MDT to support the workload for small teams
  • A look to the future: key practicalities for service development to meet capacity and demand for treatment
12:15
Questions and answers with your speakers
12:25
Interactive discussion: Developing and growing a strong IO team
  • Share how your current team is set up. How many are there in your team? Who is your team made up of?
  • How is your team developing and growing?
  • What are your future plans and how are you planning to get there?
12:45
Networking lunch
1:45
Standardising training to deal with increased complexity of immunotherapies
  • Exploring the importance of standardisation for immunotherapy delivery
  • How to implement wide and standardised training to improve competency across the board
  • Engaging and upskilling your MDT: managing increased complexity
Service expansion
2:15
How to develop and expand your immuno-oncology service to meet capacity demands
  • Understanding your current capacity and how to increase it
  • Considering your service delivery approaches to streamline your service
  • Accessing funding to expand your team, increase your training and optimise your resources
2:45
Questions and answers with your speakers
2:55
Interactive discussion: Expanding your service to meet capacity challenges
  • How have you established your service so far? What have you done to expand?
  • What do you need to develop within your service to increase capacity?
  • What are the next steps you will take to increase funding and workforce within your service?
3:15
Networking break
3:35
Case study: Setting up and establishing an Immuno-Oncology service
  • Exploring service models and what will work best in practice
  • Considerations for establishing a service: overcoming common challenges
  • Building a business plan and accessing available funding to develop your team
4:05
Developing your adverse effects clinic to streamline your service
  • Service considerations: challenges and benefits explored
  • Practicalities of establishing your clinic: staffing, funding and capacity
  • Determining testing ‘rules’ for IO toxicities to streamline your recognition process
4:25
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:35
Interactive discussion: Building your action plan for service development
  • What developments will you implement after today?
  • How will you continue to drive IO forward?
4:55
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

Call for speakers

Do you have a case study you would like to present? Are you interested in sharing your perspectives with your peers? We would the love opportunity to discuss presenting opportunities with you. Please email the Conference Producer, Hope Frost (hope.frost@sbk-healthcare.co.uk) who would be pleased to talk to you about how you can get involved.

Confirmed speakers:

Anna Olsson Brown

Consultant in Medical Oncology and Clinical Director for Clinical Cancer Care
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Ali Hodge

Nurse Consultant Immunotherapy
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Pricing structure

  • Early bird: £249+VAT for one NHS or public sector places before Friday 6th June 2025
  • £299 + VAT for one NHS or public sector place after Friday 6th June 2025
  • £199+VAT per place for IOCN members

Immuno-Oncology providers and other commercial companies wishing to attend, are invited to sponsor this day. Please email Vanessa Pearce for further details.

If you belong to an alliance, association or network please email Sophie Richardson for more details about discounted places.

Venue details

Venue name: Hilton Leeds City

Address: Neville St, Leeds LS1 4BX

Tel: 0113 244 2000

Email: reservations.leedscity@hilton.com

In the heart of Leeds, the Hilton Leeds City is a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station. Situated just off the M621, the hotel has easy access to the motorway network and is a 25 min drive from Leeds Bradford Airport. Parking is available at the Hilton Leeds City on a first come first serve basis, charged at £18 per day.

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 and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.

Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information.

Please inform us by writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

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

This in-person forum is tailored for NHS professionals working within Immunotherapy MDTs, including but not limited to:

  • Lead Nurses, CNS, Matrons and Sisters in Cancer, Acute Oncology, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, CUP, Rapid Diagnostics and Haematology 
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists and Consultants in Pain Management and Palliative Care
  • Consultant Clinical Oncologists, Consultant Medical Oncologists and Speciality Doctors
  • Pharmacists, Medical Managers and Service Managers

Past attendee feedback

If you choose to attend you will be in good company with over 1300 professionals taking part in our online oncology events in the past 4 years. Our focused forums have received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!

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“Well-organised. Length of each presentation was just right. Really nice to have the table discussions/networking in between”
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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“Very useful and informative. Lots of ideas to take back and develop in our service. Good to see what other centres do and how services are run. Speakers were brilliant”
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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“Excellent day which has given lots of food for thought”
- NHS Grampian
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“Really interesting and informative. Will improve my practice greatly”
- North Bristol NHS Trust
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“Excellent. Provided examples and advice on service development. Excellent speakers. Enjoyed the discussions”
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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“Inspiring and productive”
- James Cook Hospital, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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“Excellent networking opportunity. So nice to meet like-minded enthusiastic colleagues”
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
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“Well-run, enthusiastic speakers”
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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“Absolutely brilliant day. Excellent speakers and truly relevant and valuable content”
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
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“Excellent content and really good, experienced speakers”
- North Bristol NHS Trust
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“As expected, and hoped - great insight into service development”
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
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“Good to be able to challenge my thoughts on how to improve. Reassuring to know what we are doing well”
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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“Really informal meeting but well structured. Great opportunity to hear other Trusts’ experiences and service delivery through the interactive discussions”
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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“Very inspirational. Lots of great ideas and a good variety of systems and ways forward”
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
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“Very informative. Good to learn different ways of working that could possibly be implemented and improve our service”
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
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“Varied, insightful, inspirational and a great way to network”
- Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
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“Well organised and visible staff to answer questions and signpost attendees. Good communication and set-up”
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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“Very beneficial to my organisation”
- NHS Lothian
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“Focussed toolbox for moving forward with planning. Great speakers giving hope”
- NHS Grampian
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“Really interesting, Good, flexible presentations to encompass different service provisions and set-up’s”
- NHS Lothian
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“Fantastic. I feel inspired and have lots of idea to implement”
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

With thanks to our conference supporter

The Immuno-Oncology Clinical Network was established in 2022 by Dr Anna Olsson-Brown and a team of trustees with a passion for improving the care of cancer patients receiving immunotherapy treatment. Dr Olsson-Brown recognised the need to build a multi-disciplinary and multi-specialty community to support healthcare professionals manage the complexities of Immuno-oncology treatments including the auto-immune side effects. The Immuno-Oncology Clinical Network applied for charitable status in Spring 2023.


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