Project to link members to MPharm course in the UK
Dear BOPA Members, The Education & Training subcommittee are working on a project to link BOPA members into every undergraduate MPharm course in the UK, with the aim of providing…
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BOPA EDI membership survey
We invite you to take part in a quick BOPA EDI membership survey. Your responses will assist the BOPA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) subcommittee to better serve the membership…
Healthcare Professional’s Experiences & Perceptions of Switching Brands of oral SACT – Survey
Dear BOPA members In cancer care, little is known about the impact of specific brands of oral SACT medication or how healthcare professionals respond and process brand switches of oral…
Request for membership to create or review content for BOPA Digital SACT passport (Update)
Dear Member, Regarding the earlier communication for registering to become a creator/reviewer of mock prescriptions: This process has been amended and creation/review is open to free associates and above, as…
Independent Sector Cancer Network (ISCN) Publish NEW Cancer Service Guidelines
The Independent Sector Cancer Network (ISCN) is a strategic quality governance and safety group which aims to improve independard sector cancer provision though effective collaboration and sharing of best practice across the…
Hospital practices concerning the in-use storage time of (reconstituted) oncology medicines
Dear BOPA Members, The EDQM (the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines&Healthcare of the Council of Europe) is conducting a survey following a study from national monitoring activities, which…
New Publication by BOPA Member and AI Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) Co-Chair Pinkie Chambers
From prediction to practice: mitigating bias and data shift in machine-learning models for chemotherapy-induced organ dysfunction across unseen cancers New Publication by BOPA Member and AI Specialist Advisory Group (SAG)…
CRUK Consent Form Updates – MPN and Nivolumab with Relatlimab for melanoma
Dear All, I am happy to inform you that the MPN consent forms have been reviewed and updated. Furthermore, a new consent form has been added form for Nivolumab with…
BOPA Podcast – Let’s Talk About Acute Oncology
The next episode of Let’s Talk About SACT is Let’s talk about Acute Oncology. In this episode we are joined by Caroline Wilson and Alison Taylor. We discuss what acute…
Request for membership to create or review content for BOPA Digital SACT passport
Dear Member, It has been 12 months since the launch of the “BOPA SACT Verification Passport”. In order to optimise user experience of the Passport, we need to have new…
Hypercalcaemia of malignancy survey
Dear colleagues, Hypercalcaemia of malignancy is the commonest metabolic complication in cancer patients and there is a lack of evidence in this area, leading to potential variation in clinical practice.…
BOPA Proposed Vision – Feedback reminder
Dear Members The revised BOPA vision was presented during the AGM at the 2024 BOPA conference in Birmingham. (The AGM slides can be found here) The revised vision is a…