The 2018 Joint hosted BPOS & NCRI Psychosocial Oncology and Survivorship Clinical Studies Group Annual Conference
This was held Thursday 8th – Friday 9th March 2018 at the Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton and the theme was:“Making a difference in psycho-oncology from evidence to implementation”
You can download a pdf file of the programme. Or see how the conference unfolded through our BPOS storify.
Delegates agreed that we had fantastic keynotes. Our Keynote presenters were:
Dr Fran Woodard, Macmillan Cancer Support on the importance of evidence for design and delivery of effective services and interventions for people affected by cancer
Professor Carl May, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on How can implementation science contribute to psychosocial oncology?
Professor Glenn Robert, King’s College London on Patients and staff as co-designers of healthcare services: co-creating patient experiences and staff wellbeing’?
We also had an enthusiastically received workshop: How to write a lay summary Helen Bulbeck, brainstrust, and a Service Innovation Symposium, as well as oral presentations, posters and e-posters and a lunch with mentors.