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Eden Robertson launches her animation

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Those of you who came to the conference last year may recall Eden Robertson who won a student prize. She has recently launched her  Delta animation officially – the first publicly available component of Delta, a world-first resource that supports both parents and young people who are deciding whether to enrol in a childhood cancer clinical trial.  Read More “Eden Robertson launches her animation”

Anthony Nolan Trust survey

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The British Psychological Society Faculty for Oncology and Palliative Care (SIGOPAC) has worked with the Anthony Nolan Trust and contributed to a post-stem cell transplant (SCT) care pathway, with psychological care embedded throughout. They are now seeking opinion on this pathway via an online survey (https://www.anthonynolan.org/8-ways-you-could-save-life/campaign-us/our-work-improve-post-transplant-care ). There are separate surveys for patients/carers/families affected by SCT and one for NHS representatives with experience of SCT.

If you are able to contribute please use the link above and also feel free to forward this to any of your colleagues that may be able to contribute.

Service innovation papers – separate abstract decisions to main call

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At our next conference Feb 2019 we would like to showcase excellent clinical, educational, integrational and good practice initiatives in the form of oral or poster presentations. Delegates wishing to present their work this way should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words describing their work (this does not need to be structured). The scientific committee will assess the merit of these abstracts separately from the main call for papers . Abstract submissions along with title, full name and affiliation of authors should be sent to Sarah Dickinson (BPOS secretary) secretary@bpos.org by the Friday 9th November 2018 and presenters will know if they are successful by Friday 7th December 2018.

Bursaries for our next conference

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We have one PhD student bursary (for students who wish to present at the conference) and one consumer bursary available. These bursaries will cover the cost of full conference registration (both days including accommodation), conference dinner and second class travel to the conference (up to a maximum of £150).

 

For more details see the bursaries page on the website

Quick survey for professionals to help shape development of the Sarcoma Assessment Measure

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With the Sarcoma Group, Lesley Storey is in the process of developing a Patient Reported Outcome Measure. The group would like to get the view of health professionals about what they see patients identifying as important and have asked the following email to be circulated:

We are in the process of developing the Sarcoma Assessment Measure (SAM) and are currently administering a questionnaire to patients with sarcoma containing 393 items reflecting their experience, as described in interviews with 121 patients from across the UK. The Item Reduction Questionnaire (IRQ) asks patients to rate what they think is most important and what they worry most about. We will take the results of this and compare against existing quality of life measures to determine whether these capture all the issues important to patients.

The primary aim of developing SAM is to develop a tool that could be used in clinical practice to help direct patient conversations so we are therefore interested in exploring what healthcare professionals think patients think is important and they worry about.

We would like to invite you to complete the IRQ. The IRQ is split into 5 domains: physical wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing, financial wellbeing and sexuality. To make this less burdensome for you to complete, we have split the online version into the 5 domains. The links are below, please complete as many as you can. There is nothing in the questionnaire to identify you so your response is completely anonymous.

https://lsbu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sam-irq-physical-wellbeing

https://lsbu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sam-irq-social-wellbeing

https://lsbu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sam-irq-financial-wellbeing

https://lsbu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sam-irq-sexuality-copy

https://lsbu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sam-irq-emotional-wellbeing

We would like to get responses from as many people in the MDT as possible so please circulate this to your team. Thank you in advance for supporting the SAM study.

Dr Rachel Taylor (Senior Research Fellow), Professor Jeremy Whelan (Professor of Medical Oncology) and Dr Ana Martins (Sarcoma UK Research Associate)

Psycho-Oncology (Wiley): Introducing Registered Reports

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What are Registered Reports?

Registered Reports are a new form of empirical article in which the methods and proposed analyses are preregistered and reviewed prior to research being conducted. The cornerstone of the Registered Reports format is that a significant part of the manuscript will be assessed prior to data collection, with the highest quality submissions accepted in advance. This format is designed to minimize bias in deductive science, while also allowing complete flexibility to conduct exploratory (unregistered) analyses and report serendipitous findings Psycho-Oncology is pleased to announce that the journal now accepts Registered Reports. Find out more.

Trainees for NCRI Clinical Studies Groups and SPED Advisory Group: Psychosocial Oncology and Survivorship Clinical Studies Group vacancy.

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The NCRI Clinical Studies Groups (CSGs) and Advisory Group Trainee scheme provides the opportunity for junior researchers to experience the workings of a CSG or Advisory Group. Trainees are appointed for two years in the first instance with an option to join a CSG subgroup thereafter, depending on vacancies. The Psychosocial Oncology and Survivorship Clinical Studies Group has a vacancy.

» Role profile and advert (PDF)

» Application form (internal webpage)

Please note, the application process for the NCRI Children’s Cancer & Leukaemia and Head & Neck CSGs trainee scheme is separate from the above. An advert for these two CSGs will open in mid-summer 2018.

The application deadline is 5pm, 2 July 2018

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