With pressure growing and resources being stretched, uncover how to improve your capacity
Designed for SACT professionals, this interactive training day will enable you to step back and reassess your service, enabling you to create a viable plan for improved capacity management. With the demand for SACT growing and pressure increasing on your team, there is no better time to take a day out and arm yourself with the tools to increase efficiency in your unit.
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Lead your team to enhanced capacity management: what you will learn
This study day will provide you with the elements necessary to create an action plan and start tackling your demand pressures head on:
Developed with convenience in mind: join this NHS online course remotely
Take away useful techniques and new processes to manage your demand and optimise your capacity:
This course is available for in-house training
9:30 |
Join, technical support and instructions
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10:00 |
Chair’s opening remarks
Samantha Toland, Lead Chemotherapy Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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National SACT updates | |
10:10 |
Understanding the national conclusions and implications: what can be done?
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10:30 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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Workforce upgrades | |
10:40 |
Enhancing workforce management and prioritisation to improve capacity in your unit
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11:10 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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11:20 |
Interactive discussion: Share good practice and discover what others are doing to support their team’s capacity
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11:50 |
Screen break
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Innovative working | |
12:00 |
Reviewing your service and treatment pathways to enhance efficiency
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12:30 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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12:40 |
Interactive discussion: Reviewing your pathways to increase efficiency
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1:10 |
Lunch break
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Capacity and demand modelling | |
1:40 |
Understanding the bigger picture: how efficient is your service and how can you improve it?
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2:10 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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2:20 |
Interactive discussion: Work through scenarios to demonstrate service improvements
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2:50 |
Screen break
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Protocols and prescribing systems | |
3:00 |
Boosting efficiency of your protocol and prescribing systems
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3:30 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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3:40 |
Interactive group discussion: reflection and action points explored
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4:10 |
Closing remarks and close of day
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Share in first-hand experience
Samantha Toland is an experienced speaker and lecturer who has previously been described by attendees as ‘especially engaging’ and ‘very inspiring’. At this interactive course you will benefit first-hand from her extensive experience within oncology nursing.
Sam has been a cancer / haemato-oncology nurse for over 23 years, having worked initially in haemato-oncology and stem cell transplant, she then went on to become a chemotherapy nurse trainer, responsible for the chemotherapy training and education of all nursing staff in a large teaching hospital trust. During this time, she also commenced a post at Birmingham City University as a senior lecturer in haemato-oncology and chemotherapy, running modules in SACT, haemato-oncology, stem cell transplant and also supporting the non-medical prescribing programmes alongside her clinical roles. She has also had roles as a Leukaemia Nurse Specialist, Acute Oncology Nurse Practitioner and is currently a Lead Chemotherapy Nurse of a large acute hospital trust, and continues as a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University.
She is also the Chair of the West Midlands Cancer Alliance SACT EAG, and a member of the National Clinical Leads Group for Chemotherapy.
Pricing Structure
You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding.
Expected attendees
With capacity at the forefront of everyone’s mind, now is the time to come together with your fellow SACT professionals to get new ideas to drive your service forward. We would expect attendance from:
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 online forums have received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!
"Extremely informative, some good ideas to take forward into our area.”
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Providing Personalised Care and Support Planning, November 2023
“Excellent speakers with a real passion for lung cancer, reassuring that we all have the problems no matter where we work.”
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your Lung Cancer Service, September 2023
“It was brilliant to hear about progress and setbacks experienced by colleagues across the UK.”
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Establishing Acute Oncology SDEC, September 2023
“Very informative, makes you more aware of how other trusts work, well delivered, certainly gives confidence to explore your triage assessments and how to gain more knowledge and different ideas for triage.”
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment , April 2023
“A brilliant study day - very educational.”
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Enhancing your MUO/CUP Pathways, March 2023
“The presentations are so helpful and will help manage patients in clinical practice.”
Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust, Identifying and Treating Immuno-Oncology (IO) Adverse Effects, December 2022
Why sponsor?
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.
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