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As previously announced, the ACP is pleased to confirm that this year's AGM is being held at 10:30-12.00 on Thursday 15th June. This year the ACP is joining the UK Oncology Forum in the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel and holding…

National Regimen-Specific Consent Forms – Publication Updates Regimen-specific consent forms for many tumour types have been published on the Cancer Research UK website, more tumour-site and regimen specific and generic forms now released, including, as below:…

In an editorial to be published on Friday 24 February 2017 in the journal ecancermedicalscience, leading academics from across the UK explore the risks facing cancer care, treatment and research in a post-Brexit world. The editorial is written…

You should already have received details of our new database from our new association management company, Meeting Makers. To those who have re-registered as members through this database, thank you. For others, please take the time to complete this. If…

ACP Oncology Prizes The ACP is pleased to offer prizes for 2017 to both medical students and Postgraduate trainees at FY/CMT level, to try and stimulate an interest in oncology and recognise excellence in cancer research. …

A senior ACP representative group met with the Shape of Training (ShOT) Steering Committee to put forward the case for the need for medical oncology to remain an acute-medicine-free specialty both as consultants and for the majority of our training.…

In the NHS we use multiple software systems to record data on cancer patients and also to prescribe treatment. There is a lack of coordination between both suppliers and users and the result can often feel like a fragmented system.…

Illustrating the challenges the service faces NHS England has just published some key performance data on CCGs nationally.

ACP members are well aware from their work supporting patients with cancer, that the NHS is under incredible pressure with increasing demand and limited resources. The Royal College of Physicians has launched their Mission: Health campaign to highlight some of…

janine.mansi@gstt.nhs.ukGuidance on consent for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT), plus new regimen-specific consent forms The National Chemotherapy Board and Cancer Research UK are pleased to launch the Guidance on the consent for SACT and national SACT regimen-specific consent forms.…