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This conference focuses on Nurse Prescribing in Cancer Care. Through national updates and practical case studies the conference will demonstrate how the effective use of nurse prescribing in cancer care can improve patient care, experience and outcomes. The conference will focus on developing competence and confidence in non medical prescribing in cancer care, including using the using the National Competency Framework for all Prescribers. Case study sessions will demonstrate how prescribing practice can be improve care for people with cancer and will focus on maintaining and demonstrating prescribing competence, prescribing for pain management, chemotherapy prescribing, Immunotherapy induced side effects and how to manage them, prescribing for co-morbidity and the importance of holistic assessment, prescribing for symptom control, and prescribing in end life care including controlled drugs.
Cancer nurse specialists who were identified as being “central” to delivering person-centred care.
Expert Panel: evaluation of the Government’s commitments in the area of cancer services in England, House of Commons March 2022
Over 320,000 people received treatment for cancer over the last year (Nov 2021 – Oct 2022) – the highest year on record, and up by more than 8,000 on the same period pre-pandemic.
NHS England January 2023
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve nurse prescribing practice in cancer care
Reflect on the new developments in prescribing and treatments
Understand the national context including the national competency framework for prescribers
Develop your skills and improve competence in prescribing practice
Understand how to develop prescribing to improve chemotherapy services
Immunotherapy induced side effects and how to manage them
Prescribing for co-morbidity
Improve your skills in the prescribing and prescribing governance
Examine your role within prescribing at the end of life including symptom control and controlled drugs
Understand the practicalities of effective prescribing within a clinic setting
Learn from established prescribing practice in chemotherapy prescribing and developing the role of non medical prescribers in an SACT clinic
Understand how to audit and demonstrate competence in nurse prescribing practice
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Support CPD professional development and act
