Healthy Living Pharmacy: Holding an awareness event/campaign on cancer

The below tools can be used to gather information to establish the level of cancer on a local basis:

• Cancer Research UK – Local Cancer Statistics tool: Use this tool to understand and compare the latest cancer-related statistical information in a specific area across the UK including cancer incidence, survival, mortality, early diagnosis, screening and risk factors

• Public Health England – Cancer Services: This tool contains data on cancer services at GP and Clinical Commissioning Group level collated by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service. The profiles are for commissioners and health professionals when assessing the impact of cancer on their local population and making decisions about services. They include data on cancer screening, Two Week Wait referrals, diagnostic services, emergency presentations and admissions

• Public Health England – Health Profiles: This tool provides a snapshot of health and wellbeing across each local authority in England as portrayed by a range of indicators. They are intended to stimulate discussion between local government and health service providers by highlighting local needs and providing comparisons with other areas as well as with the national average.

• PHE & Macmillan Cancer Support – Local Cancer Intelligence tool: This tool provides headline information on numbers, needs and experiences and includes prevalence, incidence, mortality, survival, patient experience and routes to and from diagnosis

• Communicating with patients page on the Community Pharmacy England website

• Healthy Living Pharmacies page on the Community Pharmacy England website

• Community Pharmacy England Briefing 032/19: Healthy Living Pharmacy – Holding a health promotion event/campaign

• Community Pharmacy England Briefing 010/17: Updated NHS Identity Guidelines – NHS logo use by pharmacies

• Community Pharmacy England on-demand webinar: Making the most of social media

• Social media guide for community pharmacy teams and LPCs 

• Cancer Research UK – Cancer incidence statistics

• Macmillan – Cancer statistics

• BMJ Learning – Motivational interviewing in brief consultations

• Cancer Research UK – Bi-annual health professionals’ newsletter
  

• Cancer Research UK – Cancer awareness in your community

• Cancer Research UK – Talk Cancer, Cancer Awareness Training

• e-Learning for Healthcare – Cancer in the Community

• e-Learning for Healthcare – Population Wellbeing Portal

• e-Learning for Healthcare – West Midlands Making Every Contact Count e-learning

• Future Learn – Talking About Cancer e-learning

• Health Education England – Making Every Contact Count

• National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England – Understanding Cancer e-learning

• Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan funded courses
  

• P3 – Public health awareness campaigns with impact (requires log-in)

• The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education has a number of programmes available on cancer

• The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education – theLearningpharmacy.com – Cancer

• Consider setting up your stall focussing on a type of cancer and follow the themes of national charities, for example, pink for breast cancer, blue for prostate cancer, red for oral cancer, teal for ovarian cancer or purple for pancreatic cancer and so on

• e-Learning for Healthcare – All Our Health programme

• Facebook – Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Community

• Health Education England – Making Every Contact Count

• The NHS Website – Cancer