Patient Education and Support following treatment for Skin Cancer Jaye Kissane Macmillan Lead Skin Cancer CNS North Bristol NHS Trust September 2016

Aim of Presentation Living Well Events Living Well Course Patient’s Holistic Needs Assessment in Clinic BCC Education Education for Tattoo artists Moving forward

The Recovery Package

Why do we need to do more

Living Well Events Part of the Recovery Package First event was May 2012 Quarterly, 3.5 hours long, Invite 500 per year, 25% uptake Great feedback How to improve on numbers?

Living Well Agenda

Living Well Courses First course November 2013 6 week course run quarterly Between 6 and 12 patients per course Topics covered Excellent feedback Patients/Lay Tutors joined in 2015

How does this help in the future? Patients are better equipped in their recovery, have more confidence and a better understanding of their diagnosis. We achieve better patient outcomes, and patients have a more efficient follow up.

Assessment clinics All Melanoma patients following treatment are seen in the Assessment clinic Hour long appointment We complete Holistic needs assessment, and offer treatment summary

BCC Education Sessions BCC education started in March 2014 At least 15 letters a week sent Sessions run every other month Feedback excellent

Other Education Pharmacy talks, May 2015 Primary school education and advice, May 2015 Tattoo Artists, April 2016 Melanoma Conference, June 2016

Future Projects SCC education sessions, November 2016 Tattoo evening, October 2016 Education for 6th formers, 2017 Follow up for thin Melanomas in group education sessions, 2017 Tattoo convention, June 2017 Reduce follow up, patients stage I and IIA to go back to referrer.

Websites www.macmillan.org.uk www.skin-cancer-research-fund.org.uk/ www.bad.org.uk www.dermnetnz.org

Questions? Thank you for listening, any questions?