Health professionals

We aim to keep you informed and up to date with new information and areas of practice as they develop.

Teenage Cancer Trust's services team work closely with health managers, commissioning groups and local Primary Care Trusts to plan the development and location of Teenage Cancer Trust units.

We also fund several services for professionals in the field of Teenage and Young Adult cancer care.

The world’s only International conference...
A Multidisciplinary Forum...
We fund the country’s first Professor of Teenage Cancer Medicine...

Transitional care: fact or fiction – what do people really need?

Our CEO, Simon Davies, is among the guests at an education event to look at the differences and similarities of caring for children, teenagers and young adults and adults coming to the end of life.

To find out more visit the (St Christophers Hospice website)[http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/education/course/transitional-care-fact-or-fiction-what-do-people-really-need] or download the flyer.

Transitional-Care-Flyer-2012.pdf (740 kb)

Teenage Cancer Trust scholarships

To further develop nurses’ skills, with the help of the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust is teaming up with The Florence Nightingale Foundation to deliver a portfolio of scholarships.

Teenage Cancer Trust has pioneered development of specialist teenage units in partnership with the NHS. Alongside this, we have been developing training opportunities for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals to enhance the knowledge, skills and expertise of staff. National policy now supports those initiatives and the UK is leading the world in developing specialist teenage and young adult cancer facilities.

Last year the Raisa GorbachevFoundation awarded 24 Travel, 24 Research and 18 Leadership Scholarships but this year would like to award more thanks to new sponsor partnerships like that with Teenage Cancer Trust.

Scholarships available

Travel Scholarships provide an opportunity for national and international learning and study of best practice to improve clinical care.

Applications close 13 September 2011

Leadership Scholarships for nurses working in the clinical specialty of teenage cancer within an organisation providing NHS funded care anywhere in the UK.

Applications close 23 September 2011

For further details on how to apply for these scholarships or on the work of the Foundation please visit www.florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk.

Essential standards of quality and safety

What standards to expect from the regulation of NHS hospitals

Following the introduction of a new law, all NHS hospitals in England must now be licensed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). To be licensed, hospitals must show that they are meeting new essential standards of quality and safety. CQC continuously monitors them to make sure standards are upheld or improvement action is taken.

CQC has published a leaflet which informs patients, their carers and families, what they can expect from the essential standards. The leaflet also explains how important it is that patients or their carers tell the regulator about their experiences, both good and bad, to help CQC make the right decisions.

The ‘What standards to expect from the regulation of your NHS hospital’ leaflet can be read or downloaded from the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk

At the same time the CQC website publishes an up-to-date directory of all licensed NHS hospitals. You can now look up the current status of any NHS hospital trust in England.