This nurse-led pilot builds on a previous partnership to deliver a face-to-face cancer course for practice nurses in the East of England. The rationale is to test a sustainable way of providing an introductory blended learning course (combined online and face-to-face). This pilot will test out a sustainable way of delivering this programme, to allow it to be delivered nationally and to have a positive impact on the health and social care of patients.

It links to the strategic direction to modify the cancer care model to enable care to be delivered closer to home and meet the need of increasing cancer incidence rates due to demographic changes, and improving survival rates, and if successful will be available nationally.

The course includes:

• Understanding how the cancer story has changed over the decades
• How cancer care is having to adapt to demographic changes
• An introduction to cancer physiology and the treatment of cancer
• Understanding how cancer impacts every part of patients' lives and the practice nurses role in supporting them
• Strategies to embed knowledge from the course into practice for the benefit of cancer patients
• Enabling practice nurses to signpost effectively on behalf of their patients with cancer
• A two day health coaching course delivered by Health Education east of England