Primary care resources
Cancer screening guidance and information
NHS national screening programmes
The NHS England website has information about the three national cancer screening programmes in England – bowel, breast and cervical.
The early cancer diagnosis resource, GatewayC, provides innovative, and tailored information to support early cancer detection. It has training modules covering the three national cancer screening programmes. These FREE courses are designed to support primary care to implement national screening programmes, and are worth 1 CPD point.
Cancer Screening and You July 2023
National Cancer Screening Programme Information July 2023
RM Partners has developed two cancer screening timelines for primary care professionals to provide to patients. The timelines include details of what NHS cancer screening programmes are available, eligibility information and how to access screening.
This guidance for primary care on providing cervical screening for trans men and non-binary people with a cervix builds on the successful RM Partners No Barriers pilot. The guidance was developed by people with lived experience and colleagues in primary care, secondary care, specialist and charitable sectors. It aims to raise awareness among primary care clinicians of the particular needs of this community, and ensure they receive equitable access to healthcare in their local community.
London Breast Screening Communications Toolkit October 2023
This downloadable toolkit produced by the NHS London breast screening service provides information and resources for NHS staff, charities and voluntary organisations at local and regional level to work together to support improvement projects and to increase uptake across the capital. It aims to bring together current resources from various organisations to help the London breast screening system to promote the programme to both clients and healthcare professionals.
Pan London urgent suspected cancer referral forms
The Transforming Cancer Services Team has produced Pan-London Urgent Suspected Cancer Referral Forms. These replace the suspected cancer referral forms produced by the former cancer networks. The forms, educational resources and support information are available from Healthy London Partnership
Breast referral guidance
Breast Referral Guidance for Primary Care June 2022
RM Partners worked alongside clinicians from both primary and secondary care, to develop a useful pictorial guide to assist primary care to be aware of different breast symptoms and when it is appropriate to refer to secondary care.
RM Partners breast pain advice November 2023
Management of breast pain in primary care BMJ Nov 2023
Prostate cancer guidance
Prostate Cancer UK has developed guidance to support GP practices and Primary Care Networks to proactively identify and assess patients that may be at risk of prostate cancer as per the requirements of the PCN DES for Early Cancer Diagnosis.
Primary Care Networks toolkit October 2023
Primary care flowchart for STT pathway October 2023
Risk awareness presentation October 2023
Additional guidance
Gynaecology Referral Top Tips September 2023
Urology Suspected Cancer Pathways primary care education February 2023
This resource helps primary care teams understand when to dispense a FIT kit prior to making a referral for suspicion of cancer and what the referral pathways are based on different FIT results.
West London educational webinars
Educational webinars are delivered by RM Partners clinical colleagues for West London primary care staff on a range of topics to help improve recognition of symptoms suggestive of cancer and quality of urgent referrals.
GatewayC
The early cancer diagnosis resource, GatewayC, provides innovative, and tailored information to support early cancer detection. It has training modules covering the three national cancer screening programmes. These FREE courses are designed to support primary care to implement national screening programmes, and are worth 1 CPD point.
Early diagnosis bite-sized modules
South East London Cancer Alliance has developed an early cancer diagnosis resource for primary care. The online resource will comprise of seven bitesize modules, each focusing on a specific cancer or group of cancers, and can be completed within 10 minutes.
The following modules are now available:
This section contains cancer related information for patients. The material is from a range of reliable resources including NHS England and trusted charity partners. The videos and leaflets relate to the national cancer screening programmes as well as diagnostic tests for other tumours. Some of the content is aimed specifically at people with learning disability.
Screening and earlier diagnosis, NHS England
Cervical screening
Videos from Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust
Bowel screening
How to do the FIT bowel cancer screening test, Cancer Research UK
Breast pain
Understanding Breast Pain video RM Partners, 2021
Prostate cancer animated videos
- Prostate cancer: You are not alone (July 2023)
- Prostate cancer: We pretend it doesn’t exist (July 2023)
- Don’t wait: Get the PSA blood test (July 2023)
- Don’t wait: The earlier you speak to your GP the better (July 2023)
Cancer information for people with learning disability
Mencap in Sutton, part of the UK charity supporting people with learning disability, created a series of videos explaining cancer screening.
- What is cancer? (January 2023)
- Bowel cancer screening (January 2023)
- Breast cancer screening (February 2023)
- Cervical cancer screening (August 2023)
Breast Screening film for women with learning disabilities – www.dothetest.org
North Central London Cancer Alliance worked with service users from the Elfrida Society, which supports and works with people who have learning disabilities, to develop an easy read leaflet with information about the three national cancer screening programmes.