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Hospices and schools working with children and young people to change attitudes to death and dying.

Learn to identify people who may be experiencing financial problems and signpost towards help and advice.

Recognise how cancer and its treatment affects patients' body image and how you can give support.

How to use a bowel screening kit.

No-nonsense information about breast screening (mammogram).

How to help patients and their families manage breathlessness more effectively

Research is for everyone. Everyone can help shape the future of research.

Develop good practice in writing a business case and workplace planning.

Helps you answer questions about employment and cancer with confidence.

Diagnosis and support of patients with cancer for general practitioners (GPs).

Help for employers when an employee is diagnosed with cancer.

Help for union reps when an employee is diagnosed with cancer.

Patients' experience of how they were told they had cancer.

Resources and activities showing good practice in equality and diversity.

Gain awareness of the legal issues that may arise in a family affected by cancer.

Leadership and management resources for mobile or smartphone and pc

Quality standards and sustainability for Macmillan cancer information and support services (CISS) and MQuISS

How to evaluate the effectiveness of services and projects.

Achieving quality in end of live care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

Improve your information skills and knowledge to support cancer patients.

Learn how to give information to a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Increase your basic understanding of cancer and how it can affect people's lives.

Basic information about Cancer Patient Information Prescriptions. Updated for 2013.

A regional induction day for new Macmillan professionals

Two films that explain the impact of living with a laryngectomy, including the communication issues that can result.

Look at some of the late effects of cancer treatment and help signpost to useful sources of information and support.

A comprehensive prospectus of cancer and palliative care courses from across the UK.

Understand the key issues in supporting patients and their carers at the end of life.

Find, share and learn good practice about leadership and management.

Assessment and management of problems with eating and weight loss in cancer patients with ACS (cachexia).

An introduction to the Macmillan Quality in Information and Support Standards (MQuISS).

Practical behaviours for delivering high quality care to patients with dignity and respect

Identifying early signs and symptoms of malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC), enabling rapid referral and treatment to improve patient outcomes.

A dramatic reconstruction that examines the issue of neutropenic sepsis.

A nutrition course for health and social care professionals developed by Bournemouth University.

Understand why nutritional care is a vital element of cancer care and how to manage and support patients' dietary needs.

For professionals involved in the delivery and coordination of out-of-hours (OOH) care.

Guidance and tools for sharing good practice in out-of-hours (OOH) care for cancer and palliative care patients.

A survey tool to measure patient experience of adult acute cancer services.

Good practice in promoting the information and support that Macmillan provides.

Prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, support and personal experience.

Guided meditations and relaxation resources

Good practice in setting up and running a cancer support group.

Supporting the transition to your new role as a Macmillan professional

How to talk to patients about the issues surrounding sexuality and cancer.

Patients explain the treatment pathway for head and neck cancer.

Good practice in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers.

Learn about survivorship and how to sign-post cancer patients to sources of help and support.

Guidance on good practice and bad when communicating with patients.

Good practice in involving users in developing cancer services.

How healthcare professionals and users can work together.

Britain's best comedy actors demonstrate good practice in leadership and management

Develop good practice in leadership and management through multiple learning styles

Supporting you in developing a service to help cancer survivors back to work.

A gateway to e-programmes and resources on communication, software, good practice in leadership and management

Help people with advanced cancer to manage their weight loss and eating related concerns.

Refresh existing knowledge and gain new information on the Occupational Health impact of a cancer diagnosis on working age adults.

Helping children and young people when someone close has cancer.