Breaking Down Barriers: Tackling Prostate Cancer in men of BME background
Bria McAllister talks through Breaking Down Barriers and tackling prostate cancer in men of BME background.
Bria McAllister talks through Breaking Down Barriers and tackling prostate cancer in men of BME background.
A course for health professionals involved in delivering personalised stratified follow up care. The course covers the background to supported self-management, personalised stratified follow up, and supports participants to develop the knowledge and skills required to facilitate supported self-management workshops with men. This course may also benefit health professionals involved in delivering any intervention that promotes self-management.
The content is based on materials developed as part of the TrueNTH supported self-management and follow up care project* and has been further developed and enhanced with thanks to Haves MediComms, Hazel Brodie, Debbie Victor, Clare Waymont and Fay Fawke.
This course consists of five modules plus an over-arching training framework:
*Led by the University of Southampton in partnership with Dartford and Gravesham NHST; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHST; Royal United Hospitals Bath NHSFT; St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHST; and the University Hospital Southampton NHSFT
Provides information on when to refer to a GP or specialist practitioner. Also covers assisting patients with the symptoms and side-effects of prostate cancer treatment.
A final summary of the course material and an assessment to test your knowledge.
Outlines treatment options and advice for managing the side effects of pelvic radiotherapy.
This module reviews the staging system that classifies the advancing stages of prostate cancer.
William Kinnaird, Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer at University College London Hospitals, helps you understand the importance of providing support on sexual function after prostate cancer treatment.
In this session GP Dr Mohammed Sattar, radiologist Dr Olly Hulson, and consultant urologist Mr Bill Cross, come together to discuss the complex issues surrounding prostate cancer and its diagnosis.
Dr Terri Gilleece talks through her research on the impact of Prostate Cancer on Female Partners.