NCL News

The North Central London Lynch Surveillance Hub has been launched at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). It will monitor, counsel and advise patients who are living with Lynch Syndrome. This is an inherited variation in certain genes which increases a person’s risk of endometrial, ovarian or colorectal cancers. Lynch Syndrome affects approximately […]

This week the North Central London Cancer Alliance (NCLCA) held its first cancer clinical nurse specialist (CNS) conference. Partnered by Macmillan Cancer Support, the Alliance and cancer nurse leads from the North Central London acute trusts organised the event at the Wellcome Collection. Close to 150 nurses and nurse leaders attended. The day was a

Now in its eighth year, the Pan-London Cancer Alliances Research Consortium is pleased to announce a new round of 12-month cancer research fellowships for 2023/24. The potential areas for projects are: Please see the guidance below for more details, as well as a project proposal template. Initially, potential supervisors are asked to submit project titles

From 1 October, the standards measuring waiting times for cancer diagnosis and treatment are being modernised and simplified. The NHS will move from the 10 different standards in place now to three: The main changes are: There is no change to the way GPs refer patients onto Urgent Suspected Cancer pathways. The only change is

A project by the North Central London Cancer Alliance and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and published in BMJ Open has resulted in a toolkit for running virtual and hybrid cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.   The toolkit is valuable for cancer teams in any hospital and will help MDT members to run and participate