The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

School of oncology

cancer community. From April 2020, a new Clinical Librarian will be employed within the team to work alongside clinical staff in accessing the latest evidence to support service delivery. This will include one day per week with the Radiotherapy Team. The intention will be to bring contribute to the library’s commitment to deliver high-quality evidence in a form, and at a time, when staff and students need it. This is another development which will see the service contribute to the Trust’s position as a local, national and international leader in evidence based education. The Library team have also built upon the success of the Library Blog by advertising evidence-based materials to all Christie learners on social media. This new initiative has been well received and is popular amongst users. The School is constantly striving to push boundaries in education and find new ways of bringing learning to individuals in a way that meets professionals’ needs and fits with clinical and service demands. We have therefore invested in a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team. The team works with all education teams to develop creative learning opportunities, whether this is to support face to face learning or in the development of the highest quality on-line learning. The team plays a pivotal role in developing and delivering innovative and engaging education, and has been key in supporting key Trust initiatives, for example embedding learning from incidents, and supporting roll out of the UKONS passport. Most recently the team have been working with The Christie Library in starting to look at opportunities and develop virtual reality education. The first project very successfully focused on developing a virtual walk through of the proton therapy treatment centre GatewayC is the School’s education portal for primary care. Its focus is to support detection, ,

The School’s Education Events Team and Education Centre continue to provide a service to organise and deliver a number of high profile local, national and international meetings for the cancer community. Over the year many thousands of health professionals, service users and Christie supporters have used the Trust facilities to listen and learn about the latest developments in cancer care and treatment from Christie experts and international guests. The Centre team has also been instrumental in ‘live-streaming’ communications within the Trust. The team have successfully live streamed events to over 20 sites nationally. This is an exciting development across all School teams, as it allows access to education from anywhere in the world. The Maguire Communications Skills Training Team is specialist part of our events portfolio which focuses on teaching clinical communication skills. The team, who have a national reputation for excellence, have delivered events across the UK and have been invited to Qatar to deliver a workshop for medics. The team have national programmes of work supporting Macmillan specialist nurses and have now been commissioned to develop and deliver a programme of training in communication skills in This year has significantly seen the launch of The Christie Proton School. This is a new collaboration between The Trust’s clinical proton service, The School, and the University of Manchester Precise (proton research) team. The Proton School have developed and launched a programme of events aimed at sharing knowledge regarding the development of proton therapy services and research internationally. The School has a newly built learning environment which will be formally opened in 2020 Our Library and Knowledge Service continue to offer highly specialist advice and support to the clinical trials by by an international pharmaceutical company to deliver.

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