The Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA) works with our communities, hospitals, general practices, local authorities, charities and other support organisations across the whole of the Integrated Care System in the North East and North Cumbria.
They collaborate to detect cancer as early as possible, improve results for patients, provide the best possible patient experience, and improve people’s quality of life across the North East and North Cumbria.
As part of their work the NCA has set-up a Cancer Academy, which is designed to support the learning and development of the cancer workforce in North East and North Cumbria. The academy holds monthly webinars on a range of cancer-related topics.
Lunch and Learn | Understanding Health Inequalities in our Cancer Pathways
Thursday 5 June 2025, 12:00pm – 1.00pm, Online: Microsoft Teams
Understanding the impact of Health Inequalities on patients in our cancer pathways and making diagnosis and care accessible to those who need it most.
On some of our cancer pathways we are seeing increasing proportions of patients who were not referred through standard ‘2WW or urgent suspected cancer (USC)’ pathways, as patients face challenges with recognising symptoms and accessing primary care.
Once on a diagnostic pathway all tumour groups see different health inequalities at play in our patient’s ability to access services, their experience of cancer treatments and their outcomes.
Dr Ruth Sharrock, Consultant Respiratory Physician at QE Gateshead and NCA Lung Cancer and Health Inequalities Lead along with Sheron Robson, NCA Programme Manager for Timely Presentation, Screening, Health Inequalities will use an example of a piece of work on the lung cancer pathway that showcases how recording those with multiple complex needs (MCN) and making reasonable adjustments (RA) transforms their outcomes.
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Speaker Bio – Dr Ruth Sharrock…
Primary Care Education | Recognising Benign Skin Lesions
Thursday 19 June 2025, 1:00pm – 1:45pm, Online: Microsoft Teams
Dr Tim Cunliffe, Joint lead for Skin Cancer & Skin Surgery, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, will do a presentation designed to give health professionals and non-health professionals, who regularly come into contact with the skin, the confidence to recognise potentially cancerous lesions without the use of a dermatoscope and detail what course of action to take.
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Previous webinars cover a range of cancer-related topics, including:
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