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April 15-16, 2019 | Frankfurt, Germany
Oncology Nursing and Cancer Care
16th International Conference on
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Journal of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics | Volume 4
Macmillan has undertaken a workforce review
utilising Macmillan’s evidence and insight into
the common concerns of peoplewith cancer by using
data obtained from our electronic holistic needs
assessment and care planning tool; with the aim to
identify the skills needed in the cancer workforce to
address those concerns. This has enabled Macmillan
to better understand the skills needed in the cancer
workforce as a whole to deliver person centred care
and support. This work is closely aligned to several
other workforce projects e.g.
• Cancer Nurse Specialist and Patient Experience
Theory of Change development
• Quality Standards development for Cancer Nurse
Specialist
• An operational delivery model to deploy workforce
and skills across care settings
• Cancer Workforce Census
Macmillan Cancer Support is working to strengthen
capacity in the delivery of integrated, people-centred
cancer services, as they recognise the significant
limitations in available trained cancer workforce
and the need for a cultural shift in how people with
cancer are supported and empowered to ensure
person centred care. Our workforce is not equipped
across the range of care settings and there are other
workforce challenges. Macmillan need to be able to
influence and support thinking differently about the
workforce and ensure we can work with statutory
organisations to enable the right training, roles and
competence frameworks to be developed and used.
As a result we have been working with workforce
experts and key stakeholders and developed a
methodological skills mix framework to test and to
ultimately build workforce capacity through policy
dialogues. Workforce is challenging in all countries
and identifying core skills to ensure needs of people
with cancer aremet is relevant widely to all countries.
Speaker Biography
Dany Bell is Specialist Advisor for Treatment and Recovery at Macmillan
CancerSupport.She isaRegisteredGeneralNursewith31years’experience
in the NHS. and has a Diploma in Palliative Care and Master of Science
Degree in Pain Management. During her career she has clinically managed
a surgical oncology ward, hospice ward, has experience as a clinical nurse
specialist in specialist palliative care as well as being lead clinical nurse
for a hospital specialist palliative care team. She has undertaken senior
management roles in the NHS including lead cancer nurse and cancer
manager as a joint role; as well as a head of operations role for an acute
trust. Within her management roles has undertaken systemwide service
improvement to redesign pathways and improve experience and care; as
well as implement new service reconfigurations in sarcoma and urology.
She is having special interest in emotional and psychological care, with a
passion to improve this in cancer care, has undertaken various counselling
in health and social care training qualifications. She has been employed by
Macmillan since April 2014. In her current role she advises Macmillan on
strategic direction and provides insight and expertise across treatment and
recovery thematic areas.
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Dany Bell
Macmillan Cancer Support, UK
Cancer workforce: Competencies to support the workforce to
deliver integrated, people-centred cancer care across different care
settings