National Cancer Action Team

Evidence

What works in awareness and early diagnosis

• Click here for free access to British Journal of Cancer special supplement Diagnosing Cancer Earlier Dec 2009

• 'Early diagnosis of lung cancer: evaluation of a community-based social marketing invervention' in Thorax: An International Journal of Respiratory Medicine click here
• Lung cancer awareness campaign evaluation: Impact on patients attending GP appointments Feb 2012 here
• Bowel cancer awareness campaign evaluation: Impact on patients attending GP appointments June 2011 here

Sharing learning

National Development Programme 2012

The March 2012 NDP meeting had a strong focus on awareness and early diagnosis and attracted more GPs, public health and LAEDI teams than ever before. 

Primary care and public health forum

• Kathy Elliott speech and slides: NAEDI and NAEDI work with primary care cancer information
• Notes of the forum
• NCAT statement about joint working on primary care

Primary care cancer intelligence forum (an afternoon workshop held jointly by the primary care and public health forums)

• Chris Carrigan, Head of NCIN Co-ordinating Team: A summary of available information
• Lucy Ellis Brookes, ASWCS Associate Director: How five cancer networks have localised cancer information to make it more useful in promoting early diagnosis slides
• Notes on the forum

Campaigns 4 Us - Workshop on combining local, national and regional awareness campaigns

• Article: Joining up local, regional and national campaigning – the North of England experience

• Some tips for local work on national campaigns

• North of England Cancer Network: Slide presentation, images, campaign logo

Sharing and learning tool and sharing and learning sets

A new database tool provides a way of sharing experience of working with primary care on early diagnosis. Cancer network GP leads and others post materials they have developed that they are willing to share with others. Built originally from the learning shared at the NCAT learning sets in 2011, the tool is regularly updated and provides contact emails for colleagues working in cancer networks, PCTs, general practice and public health.

Engaging primary care: the public health perspective

The final round of learning sets looked at engaging primary care in awareness of cancer from the viewpoint of public health. Click below to read articles and see the slides:

•  Greater Manchester draws clinicians into a network-wide awareness campaign slides article
•  North Trent's ‘push pull’ model engages services in every awareness initiative slides 1 slides 2 article
•  Merseyside and Cheshire sets a target for every general practice to save a life slides photo article
•  Anglia engages GPs in the regional bowel cancer awareness campaign slides article
•  Central South Coast plans to sustain NAEDI work through reorganisation slides slides 2 article
• Sandwell promotes early diagnosis, practice by practice slides article

Engaging GPs and primary care

Learning sets for PCTs running NAEDI projects managed by Cancer Research UK in 2011  Interim report available in the documents box of this page.

A guide distilling the experience of engaging GPs and primary care, based on learning sets run in 2011, is available here.

Cancer network directors and GP leads made presentations at learning sets. The following articles about, and the slides from, these presentations are available

Engaging GPs and primary care in cancer – South East London article slides

Macmillan GPs lead on early diagnosis in Mount Vernon article slides

Greater Midlands uses cancer audit to engage GPs article slides

Three Counties forges new links between primary and secondary care article slides

Understand your audience, Dorset GP Lead recommends article slides

Understand the pressures on GPs if you want to engage them North Central London and West Essex article

North of England slides 

Sustainability and commissioning 

Reports are available from the sharing and learning sets for cancer networks run in 2020/11 on Click here

 

• Sharing the learning between cancer networks: proposals based on interviews with Cancer Network directors June 2010 Click here

For more information about the learning sets contact Sally Williams Sally.Williams@Frontlinemc.com

 

Index to NAEDI local activity - reports, resources and articles

By cancer network:

Anglia

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Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire

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Essex

 

ECN Community Pharmacy Cancer Awareness Project Report July 2010

 

 

Greater Manchester and Chesire

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Greater Midlands

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Humber and Yorkshire Coast

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Lancashire and South Cumbria

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Merseyside and Chesire

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Mount Vernon

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North of England

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North East London

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North Trent

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North West London

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Peninsula

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Sussex

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Contacts

• GP practice profile and audit leads Click here