Cancer prevention training courses
There are many things that the public can do in order to reduce the risk of cancer, including not smoking, healthy eating and drinking, drinking less alcohol, keeping a healthy weight, being more active and staying safe in the sun.
A number of courses have been developed by Royal colleges and Cancer charities to support primary care professionals in having these, sometimes difficult, conversations with patients. Full details, including target audience and CPD points are available at: Cancer Prevention Training Courses
- Prevention (World Cancer Research Fund)
- Behavioural change and cancer prevention (Royal College of General Practitoners (RCGP) and Cancer Research UK)
- Smoking cessation (Cancer Research UK)
- Talk cancer (Cancer Research UK)
- Cancer in the community (The Royal Marsden School in collaboration with Health Education England)
- Primary care cancer toolkit (RCGP Clinical Innovation and Research Centre and Cancer Research UK)
- The health benefits of physical activity: cancer (British Medical Journal and Public Health England)
- Cancer prevention course for health professionals (World Cancer Research Fund)
Early diagnosis and personalised care training courses
There have been a number of training modules developed for primary care in supporting staff to recognise the signs and symptoms of cancer as well as supporting staff in identifying patients needs when they have finished their treatment, for example following up patients who are on a stable prostate cancer pathway or providing patients with additional support because of the consquences of their treatment.
Full details, including target audience and CPD points are available at: Early Diagnosis and Personalised Care Training Courses
- Side effects and prostate cancer treatment (Prostate Cancer UK)
- Primary care follow-up of stable prostate cancer, a guide for primary care nurses (Prostate Cancer UK)
- Sex, sexuality and prostate cancer (Prostate Cancer UK)
- Talking about sex after prostate cancer (Prostate Cancer UK)
- Cancer in the 21st century: the genomic revolution (Cancer Research UK)
- GatewayC (Greater Manchester Cancer Vanguard Programme)
- Consequences of cancer and treatment (Macmillan Cancer Support and Clinical Innovation and Research Centre)
- Introduction to population screening (Health Education England)
- Early diagnosis of cancer (Royal College of General Practitioners and Cancer Research UK)
- Brain tumours in children toolkit (RCGP in partnership with the Clinical Innovation and Research Centre)
- Dermatology essentials: managing precancerous lesions (Pulse)
Improving the quality of cancer care
Full details of these resources are available at: Improving the Quality of Cancer Care
- General practice and nurse education network (The Queens Nursing Institute)
- Carrying out an effective cancer care review (Macmillan Cancer Support)
- 10 top tips series (Macmillan Cancer Support)
- Safety netting (Cancer Research UK)
- Good practice screening guide (Transforming Cancer Services Team)
- FingerTips (National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service)
- Cervical screening update (Royal College of General Practitioners)
- Coding and safety netting in the context of cancer (Macmillan Cancer Support)
- Pan London suspected cancer patient information leaflets (Transforming Cancer Services Team)