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Dear Colleagues The next UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium is due to take place at the ICC in Birmingham 22-23rd January 2024. This is the 4th Meeting of UKIBCS, and the previous…
DON’T FORGET TO REGISTER! UK SACT Board annual conference – 28 November 2023 The UK SACT Board* will be hosting its Annual Conference at the Pullman London St Pancras Hotel on…
The BOPA Education and Training Subcommittee would like to invite you to one of our live webinar sessions on Uniting Expertise: the first BOPA and COSA collaboration. When:…
The BOPA website team has received feedback from several sources around the fact that when you log in after clicking a link it took you back to the homepage. This…
Administration of oral systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) via enteral feeding tubes and other methods (Version 2) This document replaces one in the Oral SACT Counselling Handbook for Pharmacy and Nursing…
We are delighted to confirm that the UK SACT Board has now published General principles to support Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy aseptic capacity pressures. It is available on the UKSB website.…
BOPA are pleased to announce that the BOPA Education & Training Standards for Registered Pharmacy Professionals working in Cancer Services have been updated to incorporate the digital passport and level…
BOPA are initiating research to review the training currently in place for pharmacy staff to clinically check/verify SACT prescriptions. You do NOT need to be a member of BOPA to…
Dear Members, A new version of the BOPA Standards for the Pharmacy Verification of Prescriptions for Cancer Medicines has been uploaded. https://www.bopa.org.uk/resources/bopa-standards-for-clinical-pharmacy-verification-of-cancer-medicine-prescriptions/ Change: They are now endorsed by the RPS.
You may be aware that there is some concern about the compatibility of certain brands of folinic acid with oxaliplatin. A group of pharmacists, on behalf of the British Oncology…
Podcast released: Let’s Talk About The BOPA Verification Passport Netty Cracknell and Jonathan Knight – In this episode we are joined by Netty Cracknell and Jonathan Knight – Go Live…
Dear Members, BOPA has updated and refreshed the interface between the website and our Mailing software (MailChimp). Please check your email preferences in ‘My Dashboard’ the ‘Edit Profile’. You can…
