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Scary stats on recruitment and retention for nurses: 34% ⬇️applications in UK to study nursing 21% leave before completing training Since 2021, 43% ⬆️ in nurses quitting within 10 years If nurses are the lifeblood of the NHS we are anaemic and haemorrhaging at the same time

⭐️ One week to go to National Cancer CNS Day! ⭐️ The excitement is building across our network with many trusts involved. Please join us to make this day a celebration of our Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists. Macmillan Cancer Support UKONS RCN Cancer Forum #CNS

On #IWD2025 I celebrate & pay tribute to our #AHP students, apprentices, support workers & registrants I met some amazing #AHP women on my visit to Royal Surrey last week inc Shauna, an apprentice Therapeutic Radiographer & Research #CAHPO award winner, #Dietitian Lindsey Allen

Urgent need to develop the Cancer CNS workforce; by 2030 we will have a predicted shortfall of 4K posts across UK. Mark Foulkes🏳️‍🌈 (He, Him) Hilary Baker MSc NMP BSc ANP RN 💙 explain 2 CNS development programs - but we need more #NCLCancerNursing2025 #NationalCancerCNSDay

From everyone here at Wessex Cancer Alliance, may we wish all our Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists, a very Happy National Cancer CNS Day. 🥳 What you do for your patients each and every day, is remarkable. 😊 Thank you. #NationalCancerCNSDay

So.....this is me two weeks ago picking up my MBE for 'services to nursing'. I need to say that my time as a CNS in Head and Neck Cancers and in brain tumours was the defining role in my career. Happy #NationalCancerCNSDay UKONS UK Lead Cancer Nurses Macmillan Cancer Support

#NationalCancerCNSDay 👏 Now.. cancer nursing is a really rewarding & enjoyable career. So much variety and always so much to learn! Yesterday I gave a keynote at the Pan-London CNS conference in my capacity as CNO Macmillan Cancer Support & today I’m proud to be here London North West University Healthcare as a CNS

Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 Nature Medicine

'Without physiotherapists and others, we would not be able to get people well and fit and healthy again and to continue with their lives and their work.' Thank you Sonia Kumar MP for Dudley 🌹 and Lucy Powell MP for championing AHPs in Parliament and highlighting their crucial work for the NHS.

People with cancer who have emergency admissions are are at a very high risk of death - why aren’t we talking to people about this before, during or after an AO admission? Macmillan Cancer Support & UK Acute Oncology Society asked oncologists and non oncologists why. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Two-thirds of patients with colorectal diseases were not meeting their dietary protein needs prior to surgery! We were able to shift this distribution by providing education and protein supplements: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… British Journal of Anaesthesia

More than a third of UK adults in the UK do not know what the symptoms of bowel cancer are. April is bowel cancer awareness month, so let’s get talking about them 👇

British Society of Gastroenterology practice guidance on the management of acute and chronic gastrointestinal symptoms and complications as a result of treatment for cancer | Gut first cite nice ⁦Gut Journal⁩ gut.bmj.com/content/early/…

Stage 3 colon cancer patients who regularly exercised after treatment had a 37% lower risk of dying than those handed the healthy lifestyle booklet at 8yr FU (n=889). Exercise ‘better than drugs’ theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Exercise improves colon cancer survival: At 5 yrs, a 28% reduction in the risk of ca coming back, or new one forming. At 8 yrs, a 37% lower risk of death. “I saw first-hand that this reduced fatigue, lifted people's mood & boosted their physical strength” bbc.com/news/articles/…

⭐ We are celebrating #DietitiansWeek 2 - 6 June   The profession are looking at what the future might bring, where careers might lead & how #Dietetics can be supported in the years to come   Find more resources & info here 👉   bda.uk.com/news-campaigns… British Dietetic Association

Listening to the wonderful Verna Lavender talking about cancer CNS development at #UKOF25 The importance of career development and education and capabilities in practice/ACCEND framework UKONS June Davis Claire Taylor

Great to see this published June Davis Dany Bell 💙 also on bluesky Mark Foulkes🏳️‍🌈 (He, Him) and Prof Taylor #ACCEND Macmillan Cancer Support NHS England

June Davis Macmillan Cancer Support

Great morning spent at Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre in Stratford with Macmillan professionals and people from across the cancer community to attend the 10 Year Health Plan announcement.