• Theme Survivorship
  • Location Online
  • DATE 9 September 2025

Evidence and outcomes: Implementing nurse-led survivorship models

A webinar in our collaborative survivorship series in partnership with the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, Cancer Nurses Society of Australia, and Cancer Council.

This webinar will focus on the evidence behind nurse-led and nurse-enabled survivorship care models and their role in addressing growing system pressures. It will provide practical insights into implementing integrated, evidence-based approaches to survivorship care, including nationally defined nursing capabilities, clinic design guidance, and lessons from recent clinical trials.

Date: Tuesday 9 September 2025
Time: 7:00-8:30pm AEST

Who should attend?
Healthcare teams looking to embed sustainable, outcomes-focused survivorship care into their services.

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This session will examine evidence behind nurse-led and nurse-enabled survivorship care models, and their role in addressing health system pressures. You will gain practical insights into implementing integrated, evidence-based approaches to survivorship care, including nationally defined survivorship nursing capabilities, clinic design guidance, and current research findings. Perfect for multidisciplinary cancer care teams including cancer service executives, medical oncologists, nurses and allied health specialists looking to embed sustainable, outcomes-focused survivorship care.

To get the most from this session, we recommend that before attending participants watch Professor Raymond Chan’s 20-minute presentation, 'Nursing owning cancer survivorship?'. Watch here

Learning objectives

  1. Understand the roles and capabilities of cancer nurses in delivering evidence-based survivorship care.
  2. Explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to designing and implementing nurse-led survivorship models.
  3. Examine the outcomes and value of nurse-led survivorship models from consumer, nursing, medical and system-level perspectives.
  4. Gain insights from medical oncologist and consumer experiences of nurse-led survivorship models.
  5. Identify strategies to enhance multidisciplinary collaboration, consumer engagement and sustainability of nurse-led survivorship models.

 

Speakers

    • Professor Catherine Paterson, Professor of Cancer Nursing, Flinders University and the Central Adelaide Health Network
    • Associate Professor Gemma McErlean, University of Wollongong and Director of the Centre for Research in Nursing and Health, St George Hospital
    • Associate Professor Mahesh Iddawela, Medical Oncologist, Peninsula and Alfred Health
    • Meg Rynderman OAM, person living with cancer
    • Tracey Mander, Operations & Projects Lead, Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre
    • Nella Combe, Project Manager – Engagement, Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre

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