ACUTE ONCOLOGY: DEVELOPING A NATIONAL CONSENSUS Time 9.30 11th July 2014, Birmingham 10.00 - 16.00 10.20 Session Registration and Coffee Morning session – ‘building blocks’ Introduction What is the Current Landscape of Acute Oncology? Who are our Patients? 10.50 VTE: An Acute Oncology Team Approach 11.10 Is an Oncologist Central to the Service? 10.00 11.40 – 12.00 Break 12.00 What is the Role of the Specialist Nurse? 12.20 The Acute Physician’s Contribution 12.40 – 13.00 Questions and debate 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Afternoon session ‘Constructing the service’ 14.00 A Perspective from UKONS 14.15 A Team Approach 14.30 A Perspective from Wales 14.45 Oxford Triage Assessment Team 15.00 – 15.15 Break 15.15 An Oncologist Led Acute Oncology Service. 15.30 How can Community Pharmacists help? 15.45 – 16.00 Conclusions, Summary and Close Speaker Final Programme Dr Ernie Marshall Consultant Medical Oncologist, Lead Acute Oncology NHS England, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Dr Tom Newsom-Davis Consultant Medical Oncologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Dr Chit Cheng Yeoh Consultant Medical Oncologist Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth Dr Pauline Leonard Consultant Medical Oncologist, Whittington Hospital Eleanore Quadri Acute Cancer Matron, East Kent University Foundation Trust Dr Sarbjit Clare Consultant, Acute Medicine, Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust Led by Chair Philippa Jones UKONS Acute Oncology Forum Lead Claire McGregor (Matron for Specialist Medicine) and Liz Frankson (Acute Oncology Nurse Practitioner) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Gillian Knight Macmillan SACT & associated AO Project Manager, South Wales Cancer Network John Mckenna Advanced Nurse Practitioner & Triage Lead, Oxford University Hospital Dr Richard Griffiths Consultant in Medical Oncology, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Dr Ravi Punwani Clinical Research Fellow, Lung Unit, The Royal Marsden Hospital Dr Ernie Marshall