Primary care resources

Below you can find current primary care resources to support the West London primary care workforce.

• Breast pain referral advice November 2023
• Management of breast pain in primary care. BMJ Open Quality 2022;11:e001634. doi:10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001634
• Prostate Cancer UK has developed guidance to support GP practices and Primary Care Networks 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
• Gynaecology Referral Top Tips September 2023
• Cancer screening patient information May 2023. 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.
• Cancer Screening and You July 2023. RM Partners has developed a cancer screening timeline for primary care professionals to provide to patients. The timeline includes details of what NHS cancer screening programmes are available, eligibility information and how to access screening.
• Urology Suspected Cancer Pathways primary care education February 2023
• FIT Tips September 2022. 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.
• RM Partners Breast Referral Guidance 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.
• Top 10 Cancer Tips February 2022
• West London 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.
• Cervical screening in trans men and non-binary people with a cervix: Guidance for primary care. 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 across primary care, secondary care, specialist and charitable sectors, and 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.
• Understanding Breast Pain video 2021. 
• Pan-London urgent 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.
• Sutton Mencap videos:
  • What is cancer? (January 2023)
  • Bowel cancer screening (January 2023)
  • Breast cancer screening (February 2023)
  • Cervical cancer screening (August 2023)
• 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)