Greater Manchester Cancer Academy – education across the system.

With 1 in 2 people expected to be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, it’s everyone’s business to be equipped with cancer knowledge. The Cancer Academy aims to create a sustainable lifelong learning model for the workforce, across all care settings, to meet the current and future needs of the population We want to ensure that our workforce is equipped with the skills and tools necessary to delivery the best patient care whilst supporting the delivery of the NHS People Plan and the Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer services. The Academy will help to reduce inequity around accessing cancer education and provides a mechanism to standardise training, education and career frameworks for our current and future non-medical workforce.
The Cancer Academy Summit will shed light on:
– the rationale for the Cancer Academy
– mobilisation of education delivery and how it will transcend all care settings
– collaboration across the system
– role of the ePortfolio and education directory
– what the future holds