Thursday November 5th 2015

Living with Cancer & Beyond

09:15 Gini Melesi – Project lead for Transforming Cancer Care in the Community

09:30 – 10:00

Transforming the way we deliver Cancer Care Locally

Dr David Roberts- Primary Care Clinical Lead for Cambs & P’boro

10:00 – 10:45

Cancer research at the Cambridge Institute

Dr Kelly Holmes; Principle Scientific Officer, Cancer research UK –Cambridge Institute

Refreshments

11:15 – 11:45

Cancer & the role of counselling

Janene Buckley, Counsellor & Psychotherapist

11:45 – 12.00

Hunts Community Network

Susan Moore

12:00 – 12:15

Retaining a Positive Inner Balance: Part 1

Lesley sage

Lunch

13:00 – 13:45

Retaining a Positive Inner balance: Part 2

Lesley Sage

13:45 – 14:30

What’s Good to Eat!

Caroline Innes, Nutritionist

Refreshments

15:00 – 15:30 How does Exercise impact on a Cancer Journey ? Marion Foreman RN,BA,PGCE, Personal Trainer

15.30 – 16:15

How Can You Successfully Resolve Emotional Baggage?

Nina Heaton, IIHHT ITEC IHBC

16:15

Close – Gini Melesi

PLEASE leave a completed Evaluation form on your way out. These are important for us to continue to develop & improve our programme.

Conference Speakers – Who’s Who?

A Message from Dr David Roberts

Having been a GP in the Huntingdonshire area for the last 21 years, if there is one area I feel proud to have been involved in over the last five years it has been the development and introduction of the “Transforming Cancer Care in the Community” project, first with the ten Hunts Health practices and then the other 16 Hunts and March practices in the Hunts Care Partners local commissioning group. We have seen a fantastic improvement in care for patients with cancer particularly in the area of emotional and practical support, with a more cost-effective and efficient service that has brought care closer to the patient and enabled many to be cared for at home rather than always needing expensive hospital care. There is still much to do, if we are going to be able to afford care for the ever increasing numbers of patients living with a cancer diagnosis. Following my recent retirement from full time GP work, I am looking forward to working with the local Clinical Commissioning Group which decides what services should be provided in our area, to improve speed and accessibility to diagnosis of cancer, which we believe will increase survival rates and quality of life for patients.

Dr Kelly Holmes

Dr Kelly Holmes is the Principal Scientific Officer in Jason Carroll’s group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, Addenbrookes. Working within this biology laboratory, Dr Holmes key interest is trying to understand how Oestrogen Receptors contribute to breast cancer progression, as well as understanding how breast cancer therapies work and what happens when they fail. Dr Holmes completed her PhD at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, and she then joined the Carroll Group as a Post-Doctoral scientist in 2006. Presently she is working on a translational project within the lab to develop novel therapies that specifically target a critical determinant of breast tumour progression. Dr Holmes also enjoys training and supporting new members of the group.

Janene Buckley

Janene is a Counsellor & Psychotherapist. Janene believes that counseling can help to gain clarity, a greater awareness of yourself, of others and of the life you have whilst also helping you to develop coping skills and to feel empowered. Janene has 14 years private practice experience has also worked with the NHS, GP surgeries and Charities. In this presentation she offers you some techniques that you can use when you are feeling out of control and overwhelmed by your emotions.

Caroline Innes

Caroline Innes has a first class honors degree in Nutrition and Health Sciences and has worked as a complementary health practitioner since 1999. As well as working with individuals, her other projects include providing nutritional expertise for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Safe and Healthy Cooking initiative, nutritional advice to staff at EDF Energy and running nutrition workshops for Cancer patients at the Trinity Holistic Centre, James Cook University Hospital. Caroline will guide us through the minefield of fact & fiction when it comes to identifying those foods offering positive benefit to people with cancer.

Susan Moore

Susan is a patient/volunteer who has been with HCCN since its inception. Having benefited hugely from the support she received as she learned about her disease and adjusted to a new normality she decided to stay with the project to offer support to others. Susan is a co-founder of HCCN the charity, which raises money used to grow and develop the support services that can be made available to people with a diagnosis of cancer who are determined to take back their lives.

Lesley Sage

Lesley’s working life has, for the past 30 years, been involved in various aspects of developing people in the fresh produce, fresh food and horticulture industries, all of which are fast moving due to the short shelf-life of the products. She started working with young people leaving school, moved onto high potential graduates entering management and for the past decade she has also worked with middle and senior managers and directors. Alongside this, she has been involved with developing new coaches for private, public and the charitable sectors. Some of her work has been in small group facilitation but the majority has been one-to-one coaching especially in the area of responding to, and dealing with change, much of which is not planned and sometimes not wanted.

Today, she shares a couple of techniques which many clients, of all ages, have found useful when needing to adjust to new situations.

Marion Foreman

Marion combines many years of nursing with a passion for helping people to use exercise to maximise their wellbeing. Marion’s specialist skills involve working with those with long term health problems and helping to maintain and improve mobility and independence. Marion is highly qualified, not only as a Registered Nurse where much of her work was within cancer care but also as a qualified Registered Personal Trainer. She has a Certificate in Exercise Referral from Health Care Professionals, a Certificate in Cancer Rehabilitation through Exercise and is a Weight Management Counsellor. Marion also has a very personal interest in Cancer. When her husband was diagnosed with Malignant Melanoma both Steve and Marion decided to quit their day jobs, and focus on doing something that would make them both truly fulfilled. They opened a fitness gym! Marion now helps us by running a fitness class here at the hospital for people with a cancer diagnosis to help them keep fit during their treatment or regain their fitness after treatment has completed.

Gini Melesi

Gini has worked within the specialty of Cancer for over 26 years. She spent 10 years working in London as a Sister on Bone Marrow Transplant Units at both St Bartholomews Hospital and St Georges Hospital, London. Prior to moving out of London she was employed to commission a new Private Oncology/Haematology Service at The London Independent Hospital. Since then she has held various Clinical Nurse Specialist roles within Oncology, Clinical Trials, Heamatology and Palliative care. For the past two & a half years she has been the project lead for the Transforming Cancer Care in the Community project. She is committed to challenging traditional methods of delivery of care and empowering patients to take charge of their own lives.

Nina Heaton

Nina Heaton helps people to resolve stress, gain clarity, increase energy levels and enhance well-being. Her background in holistic therapies has been the foundation for becoming a certified Matrix Energetics Practitioner, certified Human Software Engineer Coach (resolving emotions and feelings), Reiki practitioner and Master and certified NLP Practitioner. Nina runs Yoga & Well-being Day Retreats near Oundle and also runs workshops and sessions for groups, tailored to their specific needs and interests. She explains “All of these areas are all about helping people to experience their true potential, whether it be simply how to relax or to transforming stuck areas in their life and expand personal development, it’s about creating a more joyful life!” As a highly qualified practitioner with over 20 years’ experience based in Peterborough, she continues to develop her skills and knowledge. She works with individuals and groups in person or by Skype depending on the type of session and also takes commissions for her Consciousness Art.

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