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BPOS Executive Committee Vacancy: Nursing representative

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We are looking for a new member to join our Executive Committee in the Nursing Representative role, which is a 3 year position.

To learn more about BPOS please take a look around our website. If you are interested, or would like further information please contact Eila Watson (BPOS Chair, ewatson@brookes.ac.uk) or Kate Absolom (Chair Elect, k.l.absolom@leeds.ac.uk) for an informal discussion.

Applicants are asked to submit a covering letter, detailing why they would like to join the committee, and a short CV to Sarah Dickinson (s.dickinson@leeds.ac.uk) by Friday 21st December 2018 at 5pm. The Executive Committee will decide on appointments.

Bursary deadline extended – come to our conference for free!

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2019 BPOS conference-  28th February – 1st March 2019 at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel, Chester

We have extended the deadline for applications for our consumer bursary until the 14th December 2018. To be eligible, you must be someone who has, or has had, a diagnosis of cancer, or be a carer for someone who has had a diagnosis of cancer. 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). If you wish to apply for the consumer bursary please email Lorraine Warrington treasurer@bpos.org with a brief paragraph outlining why you would like to attend.  The bursary winner will be drawn from a hat!

Save the date! Next BPOS conference

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Abstract submission ends 19th November for our conference being held on 28th February – 1st March 2019 at Double Tree Hilton Hotel, Chester

Theme: Innovations in Psychosocial Oncology: Research, Education & Practice

The conference will be hosted locally by Professor Nick Hulbert-Williams and colleagues from Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH), University Chester

Registration is open!

To remind yourself of this year’s conference in March, you can download a pdf file  of the programme. Or see how the conference unfolded through our BPOS storify.

Management of Depression and Anxiety in Cancer

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IPOS Members receive 10% off until January 1, 2019 on the below course with a coupon code. To receive the coupon code, please email support@ipos-society.org.

“This course has received positive feedback and is led by one of our IPOS members who has been engaged in both research and guideline development for depression”–Dr. Mary Jane Esplen, Executive Director de Souza Institute, Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, U of Toronto

The Management of Depression and Anxiety in Cancer course was authored by Dr. Madeline Li. This course consists of six online modules and offers 11.5 CME learning hours. It includes recommendations from the 2015 Pan-Canadian Practice Guidelines (http://www.capo.ca/). Using self-directed learning and interactive activities, the course provides an in-depth review of the bio-psycho-social etiology and pathophysiology of anxiety and depression in cancer; clinical pearls and video demonstrations on how to assess risk of immediate harm; clinical pathway based on distress severity; and psychosocial and pharmacological treatment options.

Visit the course webpage for additional details, including accreditation information.

 

For nearly a decade, de Souza Institute has been offering continuing professional development courses to healthcare professionals, to enhance their knowledge and competency and give them tools to provide the best possible cancer and/or palliative care. With online course offerings, participants can start at any time, from anywhere! Join over 10,000 healthcare professionals who have learned with de Souza.

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. Please feel free to retweet the Twitter launch post (https://twitter.com/Eden_Robertson/status/1048023772979027969), or share the UNSW News article (http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/new-resource-helps-families-assess-childhood-cancer-clinical-trials) or Delta animation (https://www.behaviouralsciencesunit.org/delta-study.html) to those you think might be interested. Eden hopes that this video will help parents and young people engage in discussions about clinical trials, and better understand their treatment options.

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)