Urology

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Welcome to the Urology Academy, featuring blended learning offers developed by the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. All content here is aligned with the levels of practice and capabilities outlined in the ACCEND framework. Upon enrolling in any of these offers, your progress will be automatically recorded in your ePortfolio.

Click here for more details on the work being done by the Urology Pathway Board.

LEAP Into Cancer Care Education Event

Event

30-May 2025. An engaging event focusing on the importance of the Cancer Support Worker incorporating LEAP (learning, empowering, advocating and providing) into their practice and patient care.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive

Hour(s)

Free

Made by Mortals: My Friend Has Cancer

Resource

My Friend has Cancer’ is a new learning resource that explores the healing powers of friendship and personalised care, guided by lived experience voices. This original audio story and learning resource can be used as a training tool to spark thoughts and discussion around the topic, aiding you and/or your team’s personal and organisational development.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Bladder Cancer Pathway Improvements Webinar

Webinar

A discussion regarding the case for change of the TURBT pathway and recommendations for processes to improve both quality and performance.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

FREE

Improving early diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer Webinar

On Demand Webinar

An on-demand webinar recording that includes an overview of ovarian cancer including signs and symptoms, investigations, case based discussion. With a focus on early diagnosis and share information “This Van Can” project.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Improving early diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer Webinar

Webinar

This webinar will include an overview of ovarian cancer in the UK, signs and symptoms, investigations, case based discussion. We will focus on how to improve early diagnosis and share information regarding the mobile community outreach project “This Van Can”.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Pre-registration, Registration, Consultant

Hour(s)

Free

Breast Cancer Education Event

Event

5-June. An interactive, system wide event focused on providing education to secondary care clinicians of multi-professional backgrounds working in Breast Cancer Services across Greater Manchester, Mid & East Cheshire.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant

Hour(s)

Free

MDT Reform Education Event

Event

An interactive event focused on educating MDT teams on the work completed to date within the MDT Reform Project to try to encourage further uptake and compliance.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant

Hour(s)

Free

Gynaecological Cancers Education Event

On Demand Event

An on-demand case based educational event focusing on the recognition and detection of gynaecological cancers.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Dermatology Education Event: Skin Lesion Recognition

Event

10-March 2025. A half day educational event focused on supporting decision making in skin lesion diagnosis with a focus on cancerous lesions.

Level of Practice: No Level of Practice set

Level of Practice: Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Bladder Cancer Pathway Improvements Webinar

Webinar

A discussion regarding the case for change of the TURBT pathway and recommendations for processes to improve both quality and performance.

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

FREE

Continence Management

eLearning

GM Cancer x GM Training Hub: all aspects of continence management including the impact it has on people, its causes, conservative management and professionals and services available to help

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced

Hour(s)

Free

TULA and Flexible Cystoscopy

eLearning

Demonstrating the theories used to support endoscopic evaluation, biopsy and ablation of bladder lesions.

Level of Practice: Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant

Hour(s)

Free

Haematuria: Investigations

eLearning

Understand how haematuria can present in different patients and the various investigative techniques used to establish a diagnosis.

Level of Practice: Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Haematuria: Presentation & Investigation

eLearning

Understanding history taking, basic investigations, and pathways for onward referral

Level of Practice: Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

GM Urology Pathway Developments

On Demand Event

Watch the on-demand event from the 2023 Urology Pathway Board event showcase. Sharing best practice and updates about the GM urology pathway.

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Hour(s)

Free

Bladder Cancer

On Demand Webinar

Understanding different types of treatment options for people diagnosed with bladder cancer

Level of Practice: Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Minute(s)

Free

Adjuvant Therapies

On Demand Webinar

Focusing on surgical and oncological management of kidney cancers and the adjuvant treatment of patients after surgery

Level of Practice: Registration, Enhanced, Advanced, Consultant, Medical Workforce

Minute(s)

Free

Catheter Care and Management

eLearning

Interactive case based learning on catheter care, anatomy and pathophysiology (collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University)

Level of Practice: Supportive, Assistive, Pre-registration, Registration

Hour(s)

Free

Primary Care & Early Diagnosis

This education was commissioned by and co-designed with the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance Early Diagnosis Team and produced by GatewayC. GatewayC is a free early cancer diagnosis resource.

For more Primary Care and & Early Diagnosis resources click here.

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Education on Cross Cutting Programmes

Personalised Care

Personalised care transcends all pathways and is fundamental to delivering better quality care that is meaningful to the individual, supporting improvements in health and wellbeing.

Health Inequalities

All education we develop and deliver is inclusive. The Academy offers a variety of learning that supports Health Inequalities, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Operational Performance

Operational Performance aims to excel in Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS), Operational Metrics, and Treatment Variation. Find resources like training videos for using Single Queue Diagnostics via Infoflex.