The purpose of this section is to provide educational resources to practitioners across London in term of screening and early diagnosis. These include support materials to make it easier to use the Urgent Suspected Cancer referral forms as outlined below. A framework to support evaluation of training initiatives and a Training Needs Assessment tool to measure knowledge, capability and skills have also been developed. The resources can be accessed on TCST’s NHS Futures Primary & Community Care Education section (login required).

Please note that these resources are no longer being updated. No support will be provided for these resources, please refrain from getting in touch with the current team regarding these resources.

The purpose of this section is to provide educational resources to practitioners across London in term of screening and early diagnosis. Support materials have been developed to make it easier to use the Urgent Suspected Cancer referral forms.

General referral guides

• GP Top Tips
• Safety Netting Guide
• Video on how to make a good quality referral
• Video on referring patients with suspected cancer to RDCs/NSS
• Rapid Diagnostic Centre (for non-specific symptoms)

Tumour specific Clinical Guides

Brain and CNS, Breast, Children, Gynaecology, Haematology, Head and neck, Ophthalmology, Lower GI, Lung and Pleural, Sarcoma, Skin, Upper GI, Urology

Tumour specific Top Tips

Breast, Head and Neck, Lung, Skin, Lower GI, Upper GI, Gynaecological, Haematology, Sarcoma, Urology

Other resources available

• Early Diagnosis Data and Intelligence on NHS Futures (login required)